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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.
Joseph Brodsky's greatness as a poet has to do with his expectation
that life measure up to the demands of art and not vice versa.
These conversations show that his friendship has an equally
heightening and challenging effect upon his gifted contemporaries.
Brodsky emerges as a kind of one-man ozone layer, protecting and
enhancing the possibility of poetic life in our times. The
conversations are really full of life and attest greatly to
Joseph's high powers - to Joseph's high powers. This book is the
first of its kind.It is a fascinating record of 20 conversations
with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky, the 1987
Nobel Prize-winner for Literature. It combines biographical details
with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style,
and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in
post-Stalin Russia. As a poet, essayist, and playwright Brodsky is
widely known and read in the English-speaking world: in 1991, he
succeeded Mark Strand as Poet Laureate of the United States.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. It is highly readable and contains well-researched,
reliable source material. It also includes Brodsky's views, some
previously unpublished, on poetry and language. Every interviewed
poet demonstrates an excellent knowledge of Brodsky's work and
gives rich and imaginative interpretations of his major themes.
Professor Polukhina sensitively contextualises this wide-ranging
account of Brodsky's work. The second edition of this volume has
been enlarged with two previously unpublished interviews.
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) is the only Russian poet who has been
taken seriously by Russian leaders: Khrushchev sent him to the
Gulag (1964), Brezhnev exiled him (1972), Gorbachev paid him a
visit in the Library of Congress (1992), and Chernomyrdin demanded
that his body be returned to Russia (1996). He is the most
important poet Russia has produced in the second part of the
twentieth century. Nobody after Pushkin has done as much as Brodsky
for Russian poetry, introducing many features of English and
American poetics, a new linguistic substratum to Russian poetry,
new genres, and a new mentality. He replaced the hot-blooded,
hysterical note of Russian poetry with a rational approach to the
most profound problems of our time. His tragic perception of the
world combines with skilfully camouflaged irony, self-deprecation,
and technical virtuosity.Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature
Valentina Polukhina, who knew Brodsky well over a long period, has
been studying and writing about him for at least 30 years. Her
second volume of interviews draws on eye-witness accounts of his
friends, publishers, editors, translators, and fellow poets. It is
a series of 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. This collection of 40 interviews
illuminates a peculiarly intriguing contemporary phenomenon and
affords a fascinating insight into the American literary scene.
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.
The Russian poet Joseph Brodsky has in recent years commanded
increasing attention among both Russian specialists and a wider
audience interested in modern culture. In 1987 he received the
Nobel Prize for Literature. This book, the first in English to be
devoted entirely to him, presents a sustained and comprehensive
analysis of his work to date, and offers an interpretation of his
major themes: love, faith, creation, time, exile and empire.
Individual poems are closely scrutinised to show the complexity and
sophistication of Brodsky's ideas about perennial human problems,
and the ways in which his language conveys his perception of
certain values. Valentina Polukhina locates Brodsky in relation to
other Russian writers from Derzhavin to Akhmatova, as well as
drawing comparisons between his work and poetry in English. She
also provides a comprehensive bibliography. Her book constitutes a
timely study of the poetry and poetics, style and ideas of one of
the most important poets of the twentieth century.
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