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Less than one : selected essays

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

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Additional Authors
Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
Description
501 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • Includes essays on Russian writers, Western poets, politics, and the author's native city, Leningrad.
  • "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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Source (note)
  • of the Dedalus Foundation;
Contents
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
JFD 86-5761
ISBN
  • 9780374520557
  • 0374520550
  • 9780374185039
  • 0374185034
  • 9780670814053
  • 0670814059
LCCN
85015900
OCLC
12263218
Author
Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996, author.
Title
Less than one : selected essays / Joseph Brodsky.
Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.
Copyright Date
©1986
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Copy in ReCAP 24-4970 inscribed.
Source
Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
Other Form:
Online version: Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996. Less than one. First edition (OCoLC)1202768253
Research Call Number
ReCAP 24-4970
JFD 86-5761
*QD 91-4574
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