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Less Than One: Selected Essays

Less Than One: Selected Essays Trade paperback - 1987

by Brodsky, Joseph

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New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 1987 Trade Paperback. 520 pp. 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.
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  • Title Less Than One: Selected Essays
  • Author Brodsky, Joseph
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
  • Date 1987
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2333203
  • ISBN 9780374520557 / 0374520550
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.82 x 1.28 in (20.83 x 14.78 x 3.25 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, Modern - 20th century - History and, Russian literature - History and criticism
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.104

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Joseph Brodsky (1940-96) came to the United States in 1972, an involuntary exile from the Soviet Union. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and served as Poet Laureate of the United States in 1991 and 1992. His books include Less Than One, On Grief and Reason, Selected Poems, and many others.

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