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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Loseff, Lev
Miller, Jane Ann

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismEastern European History

ISBN10: 0300181604
ISBN13: 9780300181609
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Feb 14 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
An intimate, penetrating study of Joseph Brodsky's life and work, written by his lifelong friend, the eminent Russian literary scholar Lev Loseff

The work of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), one of Russia's great modern poets, has been the subject of much study and debate. His life, too, is the stuff of legend, from his survival of the siege of Leningrad in early childhood to his expulsion from the Soviet Union and his achievements as a Nobel Prize winner and America's poet laureate.

In this penetrating biography, Brodsky's life and work are illuminated by his great friend, the late poet and literary scholar Lev Loseff. Drawing on a wide range of source materials, some previously unpublished, and extensive interviews with writers and critics, Loseff carefully reconstructs Brodsky's personal history while offering deft and sensitive commentary on the philosophical, religious, and mythological sources that influenced the poet's work. Published to great acclaim in Russia and now available in English for the first time, this is literary biography of the first order, and sets the groundwork for any books on Brodsky that might follow.

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