Less Than One: Selected Essays

The collection of critical and autobiographical essays from Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Brodsky that catapulted the author--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian ?migr? 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. Less Than One, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, opens and closes with revealing autobiographical essay.

Author: Joseph Brodsky
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/12/2020
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 512
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 6.60h x 5.40w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780374539054