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Less than one : selected essays

Title
  1. Less than one : selected essays / Joseph Brodsky.
Published by
  1. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
  2. ©1986
Author
  1. Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Additional authors
  1. Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
Description
  1. 501 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.
  2. "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."--Publisher's website.
Subject
  1. 1900-1999
  2. Poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
  3. Russian literature > History and criticism
  4. Poetry, Modern
  5. Russian literature
  6. Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Less than one -- The keening muse -- Pendulum's song -- A guide to a renamed city -- In the shadow of Dante -- On Tyranny -- The child of civilization -- Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980): an obituary -- The power of the elements -- The sound of the tide -- A poet and prose -- Footnote to a poem -- Catastrophes in the air -- On "September 1, 1939" by W.H. Auden -- To please a shadow -- A commencement address -- Flight from Byzantium -- In a room and a half.
Call number
  1. JFD 86-5761
Source (note)
  1. of the Dedalus Foundation;
Author
  1. Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996, author.
Title
  1. Less than one : selected essays / Joseph Brodsky.
Publisher
  1. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Copyright date
  1. ©1986
Edition
  1. First edition.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Local note
  1. Copy in ReCAP 24-4970 inscribed.
Source
  1. Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
Chronological term
  1. 1900-1999
Added author
  1. Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
Other form:
  1. Online version: Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996. Less than one. First edition (OCoLC)1202768253
LCCN
  1. 85015900
ISBN
  1. 9780374520557
  2. 0374520550
  3. 9780374185039 (hardcover) : $25.00
  4. 0374185034 (hardcover)
  5. 9780670814053
  6. 0670814059
Research call number
  1. ReCAP 24-4970
  2. JFD 86-5761
  3. *QD 91-4574
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