Joseph Brodsky by Loseff, Lev -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Note on Translations and Sources Chapter One

Home Parents First Impressions (War) Heredity The Lessons of the City School Days Outskirts Real Education Brodsky as Jew

Chapter Two

First Jobs Expeditions Social Status Early Reading Winds from the West Modernism Poetry Leningrad Poetry, Late 1950s Brodsky’s Early Verse Persecution-Prosecution Umansky and his Circle Incident in Samarkand

Chapter Three

The Beginnings of a Style Boris Slutsky: Meter, Rhyme, Composition, Intonation Leningrad Literary Circles Evgeniy Rein: the Art of the Elegy Akhmatova Marina Basmanova and New Stanzas to Augusta

Chapter Four

Annus Mirabilis, 1964—1965: Ideology Persecution in Leningrad Kanatchikov Dacha and “Songs of a Happy Winter” Arrest and Preliminary Hearing Pryazhka The Trial Support for Brodsky and International Fame Prison

Chapter Five

Annus Mirabilis, 1964—1965: Exile to Norenskaya Brodsky and Basmanova Anglo-American Poetry Epiphany in Norenskaya Back from Exile

Chapter Six

After Exile: 1965—1972 Attempts at Publishing a Book A Halt in the Desert Long Poems (1): “Isaac and Abraham” Long Poems (2): “Gorbunov and Gorchakov” Leaving the USSR

Chapter Seven

The World According to Brodsky Poetry and Politics Motherland: Us and Them Brodsky’s Asia Questions of Faith The World According to Brodsky (Conclusion) Existentialism

Chapter Eight

Arrival in the West: Auden Brodsky in America Carl Proffer and Ardis The End of a Beautiful Era and A Part of Speech: a Philosophy of Prosody The End of a Beautiful Era and A Part of Speech: Publication Brodsky the Professor Brodsky in New York Travels Friends and Foes Nonmeetings: Brodsky and Nabokov Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn Speak to America Afghanistan and Poland Brodsky and Solzhenitsyn

Chapter Nine

Fame and Fortune The Politics and Morals of the American Campus Brodsky and the Erotic Urania Brodsky in English Essays The Nobel Prize

Chapter Ten

Changes at Home Democracy! Busy Years: 1990—1995 Illness “Being-Toward-Death” Death

Notes Selected Bibliography Index