In 1986, Joseph Brodsky (Nobel prize for literature 1987) describes in two texts (“LESS THAN ONE” und “A ROOM AND A HALF”) his childhood, the Russian collective unconscious, anti-Semitism, and the characteristics of society under totalitarian rule that can make anybody both hangman and victim. Both texts are equally beautiful and painful. The German translators […]
Tag Archives: Brodsky
LESS THAN ONE/Joseph Brodsky
Posted in General
Also tagged autobiography, joseph, less than one, literary, literature, memoiren, memoirs, Petersburg, Russia
Leave a comment
Reading list 2021