Joseph Brodsky and his family
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Joseph Brodsky is a legend of the 20th century. Eight grades of education and a career as a university professor, exile to the North and the Nobel Prize in Literature, love for his native Leningrad and emigration, a trial for parasitism and the discovery of new possibilities for his native language in a foreign land - all these are milestones in the life of the great poet.
Truly, a genius is first reduced to the average, made an outcast, and then his legacy is studied.
"... All attempts to resurrect the past are similar to efforts to understand the meaning of life," - Brodsky believed.
This book is a story by Joseph Brodsky's cousin, Mikhail Kelmovich, an attempt to trace the poet's fate through his family, in which an amazing atmosphere of unity and mutual assistance reigned. Everything was common and for everyone, parents, close relatives - the family hearth, family memory, the native "one and a half rooms" in Leningrad.
These memories will help the reader enter into a dialogue with the poet through contact with his family and roots.
Truly, a genius is first reduced to the average, made an outcast, and then his legacy is studied.
"... All attempts to resurrect the past are similar to efforts to understand the meaning of life," - Brodsky believed.
This book is a story by Joseph Brodsky's cousin, Mikhail Kelmovich, an attempt to trace the poet's fate through his family, in which an amazing atmosphere of unity and mutual assistance reigned. Everything was common and for everyone, parents, close relatives - the family hearth, family memory, the native "one and a half rooms" in Leningrad.
These memories will help the reader enter into a dialogue with the poet through contact with his family and roots.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Mirror of Memory
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