Less Than One: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780141196510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 512 str.

Joseph Brodsky

Opis

'Less Than One' is Joseph Brodsky's penetrating appreciation of his favourite writers. It also includes evocations of his early life, profound reflections on tyranny and the nature of Evil, and illuminating meditations on Leningrad and Istanbul.

Recenzje

'Sparkles with intellect, and combines the precision of scholarship with the passion of the poet' The Times

O autorze

Joseph Brodsky died in January 1996. His last post was Five Colleges Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College. In 1987 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Brodsky's other collection of essays On Grief and Reason is being reissued alongside Less than One in Penguin Modern Classics.