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Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries combines
biographical details about Joseph Brodsky with a collection of
interviews that illuminate an intriguing contemporary phenomenon,
along with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics,
style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in
post-Stalinist Russia. Subtle, incisive, and rigorous in its
critical evaluation, each discussion significantly advances our
understanding of Brodsky's complex poetic world. All discussions
are linked by core questions that are carefully and sometimes
provocatively formulated. This book is a superb guide to further
study of Brodsky's work both for specialist scholars and general
readers who are intoxicated by poetry. Presented in two volumes,
this is the second edition of a work first published in 1992; this
edition is enlarged with new interviews and a series of previously
unpublished unique photographs from the personal archives of the
author and the interviewees. Volume I offers a fascinating record
of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Brodsky:
Czeslaw Milosz, Roy Fisher, Lev Loseff, Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia
Gorbanevskaya, Tomas Venclova, Viktor Krivulin, Alexander Kushner,
and Elena Shvarts. Volume II features eye-witness accounts of
Joseph Brodsky's friends and family members, publishers, editors,
translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre,
Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus
Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others.
In the new second volume of "Brodsky Through They eyes of His
Contemporaries," the collection of interviews features eye-witness
accounts of Joseph Brodsky's friends and family members,
publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets
including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt,
Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others. This
collection of 40 interviews illuminates an intriguing contemporary
phenomenon and affords a fascinating insight into the American
literary scene. Continuing the discussion begun in the first
volume, this series of interviews contains important discussions on
the style, ideas, and personality of one of the most brilliant and
paradoxical poets of our time. Subtle, incisive, and rigorous in
its critical evaluation, each discussion significantly advances our
understanding of Brodsky's complex poetic world. All discussions
are linked by core questions that are carefully and sometimes
provocatively formulated. The interviews are published together
with many unique photographs from the private archives of the
author and the interviewees.
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Mandelstam (Hardcover, New)
Oleg Lekmanov; Translated by Tatiana Retivov
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R854
R793
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Now available for the first time in English, Oleg Lekmanov's
critically acclaimed Mandelstam presents the maverick Russian
poet's life and work to a wider audience and includes the most
reliable details of the poet's life, which were recently found and
released from the KGB archives. Through his engaging narrative,
Lekmanov carries the reader through Mandelstam's early life and
education in pre-revolutionary Petersburg, at the Sorbonne in
Paris, and in Heidelberg and his return to revolutionary Russia.
Bold and fearless, he was quoted as saying: "Only in Russia do they
respect poetry. They even kill you for it." Osip Mandelstam
compared a writer to a parrot, saying that once his owner tires of
him, he will cover his cage with black cloth, which becomes for
literature a surrogate of night. In 1938, Mandelstam was arrested
and six months later became a statistic: over 500,000 political
prisoners were sent to the Gulags in 1938; between 1931 and 1940,
over 300,000 prisoners died in the Gulags. One of them was the poet
Osip Mandelstam. This is the tragic story of his life, pre-empted
by the black cloth of Stalinism.
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