Brodsky Among Us - A Memoir

A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.

About the author

Ellendea Proffer Teasley is the author of Mikhail Bulgakov: Life & Work and co-founder of Russian Literature TriQuarterly and Ardis Publishers. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.

Summary

A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.

Additional text

“[Ellendea Proffer Teasely’s] memoir of Joseph Brodsky, with
its concise and penetrating character portrayals, and the depiction of the poet’s
journey from fifteen year-old school dropout to Nobel Prize winning poet, is
itself a work of poetry and deserves to be included in both undergraduate and graduate
programs of Russian literature.” —Marya Zeigler, Department of Defense, Slavic
and East European Journal Vol. 62.3

Product details

• Authors: Ellendea Proffer Teasley
• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2017
• EAN: 9781618115782
• ISBN: 978-1-61811-578-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 209 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 304 g
• Series: Jews of Russia & Eastern Europ
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies