Дитя цивилизации

by Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Sumerkin (Translator), Max Nemtsov (Translator)

В сборник вошли эссе Иосифа Бродского, посвященные истории русской литературы. В этих текстах поэт, драматург, нобелевский лауреат обращается к творчеству своих великих собратьев, среди которых Батюшков, Достоевский, Мандельштам, Цветаева, Ахматова и другие. Большинство эссе были написаны Бродским по-английски и лишь "Поэт и проза" - на русском. Ряд переводов был авторизован и опубликован еще при жизни автора.
В настоящем издании представлен также новый перевод эссе ДИТЯ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИИ, выполненный известным переводчиком Максимом Немцовым.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American citizen." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.