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Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse

By David MacFadyen

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780773568631
DOI
10.1515/9780773568631
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1691773 bytes)
Pages
216\212
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-09-26 19:03:50

Description

Research concerning Joseph Brodsky has emphasized two aspects of his work - his poetry and philosophy as an exile from the Soviet Union. The resulting scholarship has presented him as a fundamentally dissident author with little or no positive connection to the social and literary environments in which he spent more than half his life. In Joseph Brodsky and the Soviet Muse David MacFadyen counters the melodrama surrounding the poet's reputation, repositioning him in the context of Leningrad during the fifties and sixties.

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