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On Grief and Reason

Paperback • 1997 • English

On Grief and Reason

By Joseph Brodsky

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About the book

Joseph Brodsky was a great contrarian and believed, against the received wisdom of our day, that good writing could survive translation. He was right, I think, though you had to wonder when you saw how badly his own work fared in English. But then perhaps the Russians hadn't expelled a great poet so much as exposed us to one of their virulent personality cults. Yet Brodsky's essays are interesting. Composed in a rather heroically determined English, clumsily phrased and idiomatically challenged,...Show more

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ISBN

9780374525095

Publisher

Farrar, Straus Giroux Inc

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

On Grief and Reason

Format

Paperback

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