Less Than One: Selected Essays
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What emerges when one of the twentieth century's greatest poets turns critic is nothing short of a literary revelation. Less Than One presents the selected essays of Joseph Brodsky — Nobel Prize-winning poet, Soviet dissident, and adopted American — collecting his most penetrating and personal prose writings into a single, indispensable volume. The essays range from an extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Leningrad under Stalinist repression, to searching meditations on the poets who shaped him: Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Auden, and Cavafy, among others. Brodsky writes with the compression and precision of a master poet, treating the essay form as an act of homage and intellectual reckoning rather than mere criticism. His prose is simultaneously intimate and erudite, personal confession coexisting with rigorous close reading in a way that continually unsettles easy distinctions between life and literature. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award upon its 1986 publication, Less Than One stands as a testament to the conviction that great poetry demands — and rewards — a reader willing to confront the full weight of human experience.
Author: Joseph Brodsky
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Essays
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: good. Page Condition: good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Good. As new
What emerges when one of the twentieth century's greatest poets turns critic is nothing short of a literary revelation. Less Than One presents the selected essays of Joseph Brodsky — Nobel Prize-winning poet, Soviet dissident, and adopted American — collecting his most penetrating and personal prose writings into a single, indispensable volume. The essays range from an extraordinary autobiographical account of growing up in Leningrad under Stalinist repression, to searching meditations on the poets who shaped him: Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva, Auden, and Cavafy, among others. Brodsky writes with the compression and precision of a master poet, treating the essay form as an act of homage and intellectual reckoning rather than mere criticism. His prose is simultaneously intimate and erudite, personal confession coexisting with rigorous close reading in a way that continually unsettles easy distinctions between life and literature. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award upon its 1986 publication, Less Than One stands as a testament to the conviction that great poetry demands — and rewards — a reader willing to confront the full weight of human experience.