Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life. Lev Loseff Jane Ann Miller
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Joseph Brodsky: A Literary Life Lev Loseff Jane Ann Miller ebook pdf
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Page: 350
ISBN: 030014119X, 9780300141191
Starred Review. Nobel Prize-winning poet Brodsky grew up in the Soviet Union in the midst of WWII. "If anyone profited from the war," he writes, "it was us: its children...we were richly provided with stuff to romanticize..." A middling student, Brodsky dropped out at 15 and began his informal education. Rejected from submarine training, he held many jobs, including machinist, morgue assistant, and bath house stoker, which attracted the attention of the KGB. They arrested Brodsky in 1962, marking the start of his troubles with his government. He would soon be found guilty of "parisitism" and face exile, first to rural Norenskaya, where he read, wrote, and worked the land, and then to Vienna, where he flourished as a poet, essayist, and intellectual. But success was bittersweet, as Brodsky never returned to his homeland or saw his parents again. Loseff counts himself a longtime friend of his subject's and this account brims with respect and enthusiasm: "I cannot comment on Joseph's life and work dispassionately, not only because I loved him, but also because I thought him a genius." Yet he does employ restraint in capturing the poet's individualism, originality, whimsicality, and eccentricity, lovingly illuminating the man behind the work.
*Starred Review* Distinguished literary scholar Loseff declares, “There were a number of reasons for me not to write this book.” The most obvious being the fact that he and Joseph Brodsky (1940–96) were close friends. But, of course, that very intimacy makes for a uniquely knowledgeable and elucidative biography. Like Brodsky, Loseff (1937–2009) was a Russian poet who came to America in the 1970s, albeit without suffering persecution and exile as did the revered Nobel laureate. With dramatic on-the-scene documentation, Loseff tells the complete story of Brodsky’s now legendary arrest in 1964 for “parasitism,” his travesty of a trial, and his exile to a remote village. Brodsky became an international cause célèbre, only to be abruptly ejected from the USSR eight difficult years later. Loseff chronicles pivotal chapters in Brodsky’s thoroughly literary life, but he concentrates most zealously on Brodsky’s writing and philosophy, irony and gratitude. He traces Brodsky’s influences from Akhmatova to Orwell to Auden, performs exhilarating close readings of Brodsky’s complex and powerful poetry and exquisite essays, and delineates the formidable challenge of translating his Russian prosody into English. Loseff’s commanding portrait reasserts Brodsky’s standing as an artistic genius of rectitude who called for justice, sought “inner freedom,” and became a “true citizen of the world” and poet for all. --Donna Seaman
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