Less Than One
Selected Essays
$44.89
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2011
Summary
An affecting book of essays from this Nobel Prize-winning author.
Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers—on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and Akhmatova, Cavafy, Montale and Mandelstam. These are contrasted with his reflections on larger themes of tyranny and evil, and subtle evocations of hi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141196510 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141196513 |
| Author: | Joseph Brodsky |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 132mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘Sparkles with intellect, and combines the precision of scholarship with the passion of the poet’
‘Sparkles with intellect, and combines the precision of scholarship with the passion of the poet’ * The Times *
‘Genius … bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography’ * Seamus Heaney *
About The Author
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. His last post was Five Colleges Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. Brodsky’s essay collection On Grief and Reason is being reissued alongside Less Than One in Penguin Modern Classics.
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