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Literary Criticism Russian & Former Soviet Union

Joseph Brodsky and the Baroque

by (author) David MacFadyen

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
Russian & Former Soviet Union
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773517790
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773567399
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

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