Похвала скуке. Избранные эссе

by Joseph Brodsky, Иосиф Бродский

V etu knigu voshli izbrannye esse Iosifa Brodskogo, napisannye velikim poetom, perevodchikom, dramaturgom v emigratsii i vpervye opublikovannye v 1980-1990-kh godakh. Sredi nikh takie teksty, kak "Sostojanie, kotoroe my nazyvaem izgnaniem", "O tiranii", "Kak chitat knigu", "Dan Marku Avreliju" i drugie. Vse oni obedineny istoricheskoj, filosofskoj, kulturologicheskoj tematikoj i predstavleny v blestjaschikh perevodakh s anglijskogo jazyka.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American citizen." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.