Joseph Brodsky is a legend of the 20th century. Eight grades of education and a career as a university professor, exile to the North and the Nobel Prize in Literature, love for his native Leningrad and emigration, a trial for parasitism and the discovery of new possibilities for his native language in a foreign land – all these are milestones in the life of the great poet.
Truly, a genius is first reduced to the average, made an outcast, and then his legacy is studied.
"... All attempts to resurrect the past are similar to attempts to comprehend the meaning of life," Brodsky believed. This book is a story by Joseph Brodsky's cousin, Mikhail Kelmovich, an attempt to trace the poet's fate through his family, in which an amazing atmosphere of unity and mutual assistance reigned. Everything was
common to all, parents, close relatives - the family hearth, family memory, the native "one and a half rooms" in Leningrad.
These memories will help the reader enter into a dialogue with the poet through contact with his family and roots.
Author: Mikhail Kelmovich
Year of issue: 2025
Publisher: AST Publishing House
Pages: 352
Cover type: hardcover
Dimensions : 2.1 cm × 14.1 cm × 21.6 cm
ISBN: 978-5-17-175131-9