Between Someone And No One

Title: Between Someone And Nobody

Author: Joseph Brodsky

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789023430308

Condition: Fair

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Description:
Between Someone and Nobody is an extremely varied book, with autobiographical essays, city descriptions, cultural-historical reflections and literary commentary on admired colleagues.

Joseph Brodsky's poems and essays - classicist in form, modern in outlook - are about the same thing: the writer offers a last straw. 'A great writer is a writer who shows the desperate a way out, a pattern to follow.' It applies to Brodsky himself.

Joseph Brodsky was born in 1940 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg. In 1972 he emigrated to America. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. After his death in 1996, Arthur Langeveld wrote in NRC Handelsblad: 'To say that he was the greatest Russian poet of our time is too little: he was the Russian poetry of our time. Within Russia there is no one who can even stand in his shadow and outside Russia only a few.'

About Between Someone and Someone:
'Whether he writes about Anna Akhmatova, Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the murdered poet, Kavafis, Montale or Platonov, it is always Brodsky who speaks to us, very personally, very penetratingly, and very captivatingly.' Het Parool.

'Brodsky has a glowing, intense way of looking at things that is very infectious.' NRC Handelsblad