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Less Than One : Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky (2020, Trade Paperback)

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The collection of critical and autobiographical essays from Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Brodsky that catapulted the author--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian émigré writers.

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PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374539057

ISBN-139780374539054

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038290240

Product Key Features

Book TitleLess than One : Selected Essays

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicRussian & Former Soviet Union, Essays

GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections

AuthorJoseph Brodsky

Book SeriesFsg Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Reviews"[E]vinces a supple, witty mastery of the English language...[P]rovides deeply illuminating insights into the Russian literary tradition, political climate, and modern poetry and poetics." -- Library Journal

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal809.1/04

SynopsisThe collection of critical and autobiographical essays from Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Brodsky that catapulted the author--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian émigré writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by their inability to write in English, Brodsky consumed the language to attain a "closer proximity" to poets such as Auden. Less Than One , which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiographical essay., This collection of essays thrusts Joseph Brodsky--previously known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian migr writers. Originally published the year before Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Less Than One includes intimate literary essays and autobiographical pieces that evoke the daily discomfort of living under tyranny. His insights into the works of Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, and Platonov, as well as the non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant; Seamus Heaney said of Brodsky's treatment of one of Auden's most famous poems, "There will be no greater paean to poetry as the breath and finer spirit of all human knowledge than Brodsky's line-by-line commentary on 'September 1, 1939.'" Less than One , which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, was Brodsky's first published work of prose, and "if there's an essential essay collection . . . it's this one" ( The Guardian ). This edition, reissued to mark Brodsky's eightieth birthday, allows the reader to delve into the Nobel laureate's mastery of language, through both his analysis of great works and his own brand of descriptive dissent, at a pivotal point in his career.