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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Losev, Lev, 1937-2009
Otros Autores: Miller, Jane Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Ruso
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Brodsky, Joseph, > 1940-1996.
Brodsky, Joseph, > 1940-1996
1900-1999
Authors, Russian > 20th century > Biography.
Écrivains russes > 20e siècle > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Authors, Russian
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Translations and Sources
  • CHAPTER ONE
  • Home
  • Parents
  • First impressions (war)
  • Heredity
  • The lessons of the city
  • School days
  • Outskirts
  • Real education
  • Brodsky as Jew
  • CHAPTER TWO
  • First jobs
  • Expeditions
  • Social status
  • Early reading
  • Winds from the West
  • Modernism
  • Poetry
  • Leningrad poetry, late 1950s
  • Brodskyâ€?s early verse
  • Persecution-prosecution
  • Umansky and his circle
  • Incident in Samarkand
  • CHAPTER THREE
  • The beginnings of a style
  • Boris Slutsky: meter, rhyme, composition, intonationLeningrad literary circles
  • Evgeniy Rein: the art of the elegy
  • Akhmatova
  • Marina Basmanova and New Stanzas to Augusta
  • CHAPTER FOUR
  • Annus mirabilis, 1964â€?1965: ideology
  • Persecution in Leningrad
  • Kanatchikov Dacha and “Songs of a Happy Winterâ€?
  • Arrest and preliminary hearing
  • Pryazhka
  • The trial
  • Support for Brodsky and international fame
  • Prison
  • CHAPTER FIVE
  • Annus mirabilis, 1964â€?1965: exile to Norenskaya
  • Brodsky and Basmanova
  • Anglo-American poetry
  • Epiphany in NorenskayaBack from exile
  • CHAPTER SIX
  • After exile: 1965â€?1972
  • Attempts at publishing a book
  • A Halt in the Desert
  • Long poems (1): “Isaac and Abrahamâ€?
  • Long poems (2): “Gorbunov and Gorchakovâ€?
  • Leaving the USSR
  • CHAPTER SEVEN
  • The world according to Brodsky
  • Poetry and politics
  • Motherland: us and them
  • Brodskyâ€?s Asia
  • Questions of faith
  • The world according to Brodsky (conclusion)
  • Existentialism
  • CHAPTER EIGHT
  • Arrival in the West: Auden
  • Brodsky in America
  • Carl Proffer and Ardis
  • The End of a Beautiful Era and A Part of Speech: a philosophy of prosodyThe End of a Beautiful Era and A Part of Speech: publication
  • Brodsky the professor
  • Brodsky in New York
  • Travels
  • Friends and foes
  • Nonmeetings: Brodsky and Nabokov
  • Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn speak to America
  • Afghanistan and Poland
  • Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn
  • CHAPTER NINE
  • Fame and fortune
  • The politics and morals of the American campus
  • Brodsky and the erotic
  • Urania
  • Brodsky in English
  • Essays
  • The Nobel Prize
  • CHAPTER TEN
  • Changes at home
  • Democracy!Busy years: 1990â€?1995
  • Illness
  • “Being-toward-deathâ€?
  • Death
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
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