Brodsky Through The Eyes of His Contemporaries

by Polukhina, Valentina

• ISBN13: 9781934843154
• ISBN10: 1934843156
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Academic Studies Pr

Summary

This book is a fascinating record of conversations with poets of various nationalities about Joseph Brodsky: Czeslaw Milosz, Roy Fisher, Lev Loseff, Bella Akhmadulina, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Tomas Venclova, Viktor Krivulin, Alexander Kushner, and Elena Shvarts. In comparison with the first edition of this volume (1992) this new, second edition is enlarged with three new interviews and a series of previously unpublished unique photographs from the personal archives of the author and the interviewees. The collection combines biographical details with a new and authoritative interpretation of the poetics, style, and ideas of one of the most influential poets to emerge in post-Stalinist Russia. As a poet, essayist, and playwright, Brodsky is widely known and read in the English-speaking world. This book is a superb guide to further study of Brodsky's work both for specialist scholars and general readers who are intoxicated by poetry.

Author Biography

Valentina Polukhina specializes in Modern Russian Poetry and is well known to the international community of literary scholars as a prominent specialist on Joseph Brodsky. She is the author of several major studies of Brodsky: Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time (CUP, 1989), Brodsky Through the Eyes of his Contemporaries (St Martin's Press, 1992); The Dictionary of Brodsky's Tropes (based on Chast' rechi, 1995). She is editor of a collection of Brodsky's interviews Bol'shaya kniga intervyu (2000 and 2005), with Lev Loseff, of Brodsky's Poetics and Aesthetics (1990) and Joseph Brodsky: The Art of a Poem (1999, 2002), with A. Stepanov and I. Fomenko, of Poetika Brodskogo (2003), with A. Korchinsky I. Brodkii: Strategiya chteniya (2005).