Less Than One: Selected Essays

Title: Less Than One: Selected Essays
Author: Joseph Brodsky
ISBN: 0374520550
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1987
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 4.1.1987
Number of Pages: 512
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher Description:

This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the Third Wave of Russian emigre 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. The book, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiographical essay.