Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1999
- Category
- Poetry, Russian & Former Soviet Union
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773517790
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773567399
- Publish Date
- Jan 1999
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
MacFadyen shows that the works of John Donne, the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard and Sestov, and the cities of St Petersburg and Venice inspired in Brodsky a fundamentally Baroque evolution. He provides a compelling and comprehensive examination of Brodsky's poetry and prose in a fascinating overview of some problems of post-soviet aesthetics. The book concludes with a reassessment of Brodsky's final role, that of cross-cultural, bilingual essayist. Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque will appeal to students and scholars of Russian literature as well as the growing body of Brodsky's admirers.
About the author
David MacFadyen is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. He has written extensively on Soviet popular culture and is the author of The Sad Comedy of Èl'dar Riazanov and several books on Joseph Brodsky.