Joseph Brodsky: His Years in the USSR. A Literary Biography
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Joseph Brodsky: His Years in the USSR. A Literary Biography
19.99 €
Joseph Brodsky's departure from the USSR in 1972 divided his life and literary biography into two distinct parts. Gleb Morev's book explores the Soviet period, which marked the formation of his literary career and the development of his sociocultural position and ethical principles. The book centers on several narratives—from his plan to escape the USSR by plane and his infamous trial for parasitism to his exile in the Arkhangelsk region and his departure abroad.
The author focuses on analyzing key moments in the poet's creative journey, subjecting these pivotal episodes to detailed reconstruction and fresh interpretation. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material and immersing it in the broader historical context of the era, Gleb Morev seeks to answer the central question: what constitutes the uniqueness and radicality of Joseph Brodsky's literary and life project in the 1960s and 1970s? Gleb Morev is a philologist and cultural historian, author of works on the poetics of Russian modernism, including Dissidents: Twenty Conversations (2016), The Poet and the Tsar: From the History of Russian Cultural Mythology (2020), and Osip Mandelstam: Fragments of a Literary Biography (1920–1930s) (2022).
The author focuses on analyzing key moments in the poet's creative journey, subjecting these pivotal episodes to detailed reconstruction and fresh interpretation. Drawing on a wealth of documentary material and immersing it in the broader historical context of the era, Gleb Morev seeks to answer the central question: what constitutes the uniqueness and radicality of Joseph Brodsky's literary and life project in the 1960s and 1970s? Gleb Morev is a philologist and cultural historian, author of works on the poetics of Russian modernism, including Dissidents: Twenty Conversations (2016), The Poet and the Tsar: From the History of Russian Cultural Mythology (2020), and Osip Mandelstam: Fragments of a Literary Biography (1920–1930s) (2022).
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