Joseph Brodsky : A Literary Life

, by Lev Loseff; Translated by Jane Ann Miller

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ISBN: 9780300181609 | 0300181604
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Copyright: 2/14/2012

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An intimate, penetrating study of Joseph Brodsky's life and work, written by his lifelong friend, the eminent Russian literary scholar Lev Loseff Book jacket.

Preface	p. ix
Note on Translations and Sources	p. xiii
Home. Parents. First impressions (war). Heredity. The lessons of the city. School days. Outskirts. Real education. Brodsky as Jew.	p. 1
First jobs. Expeditions. Social status. Early reading. Winds from the West. Modernism. Poetry. Leningrad poetry, late 1950s. Brodsky's early verse. Persecution-prosecution. Umansky and his circle. Incident in Samarkand.	p. 25
The beginnings of a style. Boris Slutsky: meter, rhyme, composition, intonation. Leningrad literary circles. Evgeniy Rein: the art of the elegy. Akhmatova. Marina Basmanova and New Stanzas to Augusta.	p. 49
Annus mirabilis, 1964-1965: ideology. Persecution in Leningrad. Kanatchikov Dacha and "Songs of a Happy Winter." Arrest and preliminary hearing. Pryazhka. The trial. Support for Brodsky and international fame. Prison.	p. 67
Annus mirabilis, 1964-1965: exile to Norenskaya. Brodsky and Basmanova. Anglo-American poetry. Epiphany in Norenskaya. Back from exile.	p. 95
After exile: 1965-1972. Attempts at publishing a book. A Halt in the Desert, Long poems (1): "Isaac and Abraham." Long poems (2): "Gorbunov and Gorchakov." Leaving the USSR.	p. 118
The world according to Brodsky. Poetry and politics. Motherland: us and them. Brodsky's Asia. Questions of faith. The world according to Brodsky (conclusion). Existentialism.	p. 139
Arrival in the West: Auden. Brodsky in America. Carl Proffer and Ardis. The End of a Beautiful Era and A Part of Speech: a philosophy of prosody. The End of a Beautiful Era and A Part of Speech: publication. Brodsky the professor. Brodsky in New York. Travels. Friends and foes. Nonmeetings: Brodsky and Nabokov. Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn speak to America. Afghanistan and Poland. Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn.	p. 168
Fame and fortune. The politics and morals of the American campus. Brodsky and the erotic. Urania. Brodsky in English. Essays. The Nobel Prize.	p. 210
Changes at home. Democracy! Busy years: 1990-1995. Illness. "Being-toward-death." Death.	p. 238
Notes	p. 263
Selected Bibliography	p. 305
Index	p. 313
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