[PDF] From Russian With Love Joseph Brodsky eBook

Author : Solomon Volkov
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2002-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0743236394

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Brodsky describes his post-Russian life in New York and reveals for the first time his active participation in one of the cold war's most noted cultural confrontations - the famous defection of the Bolshoi Ballet star Alexander Godunov. In this and all his tales recounted here, we meet a Brodsky his readers have not heard before, both contentious and gracious, breaking all the rules, never succumbing to the straitjacketing of literary or political cliques in New York or anywhere else. In these raw Russian conversations, superbly translated by Marian Schwartz, is the journey of a poet-hero around the world and through this century's most troubling and sensational times.

Author : Daniel Weissbort
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 26,96 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet of his generation, Joseph Brodsky (1940â__1996) received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Daniel Weissbort, closely associated with Brodsky as friend and translator, has produced a fascinating biographical (and autobiographical) study, giving particular attention to the problems of "Englishing" Brodsky's poems and Brodsky's relations with English. It is a telling contribution to translation studies and a searching meditation on the nature of language itself.

Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374520550

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Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.

Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781578065288

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Biography -- Literary Criticism Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is unquestionably the greatest poet to emerge from postwar Russia and one of the great minds of the last century. After his expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1972, Brodsky transformed himself from a stunned and unprepared emigre into, as he himself termed it, "a Russian poet, an English essayist, and, of course, an American citizen." In interviews from 1972 to 1995, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations covers the course of his exile. The last interview dates from just ten weeks before his death. In talks, he calibrates the process of his remarkable reinvention from a brilliant, brash, but decidedly provincial Leningrad poet to an international man of letters and an erudite Nobel Prize laureate. Brodsky's poetry earned him a Nobel, and his essays won him awards and international acclaim. This volume shows that there was a third medium, in addition to poetry and essays, in which Brodsky excelled--the interview. Although he said that "in principle prose is simply spilling some beans, which poetry sort of contains in a tight pod," he nevertheless emerges as an extraordinary and inventive conversationalist. This volume includes not only his notable interviews that helped consolidate Brodsky's international reputation but also early and hard-to-find interviews in journals that have since disappeared. Cynthia L. Haven is a literary critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and a regular contributor to Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the Cortland Review, and Stanford Magazine. Her work also has been published in Civilization, the Washington Post, and the Georgia Review.

Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374528381

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With nearly 200 poems, several of them never before published in book form, this is the essential volume of the Nobel Laureate's work.

Author : Irena Grudzińska-Gross
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300149379

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An intimate portrayal of the friendship between two icons of twentieth-century poetry...highlights the paralles lives of the poets as exiles living in America and as Nobel Prize laureates in literature...Irena Grudzinska Gross draws on poems, essays, letter, interviews, speeches, lectures, and her own personal memories as a confidant of both Milosz and Brodsky. -- pub. description.

Author : Joseph Brodsky
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2002-11-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374528578

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Christmas poems by the Nobel Laureate To Him, all things seemed enormous: His mother's breast, the steam out of the ox's nostrils, Caspar, Balthazar, Melchior, the team of Magi, the presents heaped by the door, ajar. He was but a dot, and a dot was the star. --from "Star of the Nativity" Joseph Brodsky, who jokingly referred to himself as "a Christian by correspondence," endeavored from the time he "first took to writing poems seriously," to write a poem for every Christmas. He said in an interview: "What is remarkable about Christmas? The fact that what we're dealing with here is the calculation of life--or, at the very least, existence--in the consciousness of an individual, a specific individual." He continued, "I liked that concentration of everything in one place--which is what you have in that cave scene." There resulted a remarkable sequence of poems about time, eternity, and love, spanning a lifetime of metaphysical reflection and formal invention. In Nativity Poems six superb poets in English have come together to translate the ten as yet untranslated poems from this sequence, and the poems are presented in English in their entirety in a beautiful, pocket-sized edition illustrated with Mikhail Lemkhin's photographs of winter-time St. Petersburg.