Less Than One: Selected Essays
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374520557 (0374520550)
ASIN: 374520550
Publish date: May 1st 1987
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 516
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Cultural,
American,
Criticism,
Russia,
Poetry
Man is what he reads, and poets even more so. Joseph Brodsky, born Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (1940-1996), was, as the name suggests, a Russian of Jewish descent, who emigrated to the USA in 1972. It is never a trivial matter to leave one's own country behind, but for a poet emigration to anot...