Not the typical it is all about me books. Hence the concentration is more focused on where Nero fits into the Julio-Claudian dynasty. I could go on and on about this book, the deliberately misleading tone of the prologue ("Mouthy"'s false bravado); the vacillations between pride and shame and the vacillations between lust and romance; the portrait of
Not the typical it is all about me books. Hence the concentration is more focused on where Nero fits into the Julio-Claudian dynasty. I could go on and on about this book, the deliberately misleading tone of the prologue ("Mouthy"'s false bravado); the vacillations between pride and shame and the vacillations between lust and romance; the portrait of the many faces of desire; the use of loneliness as a character; the subtle motifs of keys and magic; and the juxtapositions between "Knives and Flame" and "The Trouble with Resisting Temptation" and between "Dirty Thought III" and "Lonely Plays with Mirrors" (the tone changes and interplay between these pairs on facing pages was just genius).I loved the thesis of being handed hearts and not wanting them, of needing the heart, like the body, to be taken, and I loved that for such a confessional theme, the voice remained restrained and just the perfect amount of elusive.Mouthy reads like a spiral, constantly expanding and folding in on itself.. There was no styrofoam or any other kind of packing material to pad the merchandise. Transplanted to their unpromising environs by events as much as by choices, these Jews from Russia and the East had little time for the cultural adjustments and incremental synchronization that easier times allow. Jess finally mDivided into chapters on important subjects in Brodsky's writing life, these lively talks, creditably translated by Schwartz, represent a dozen years of intermittent chats, up to 1992. From Publishers Weekly The Russian-born, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, who died in 1996, was as provocative as he was talented. In his later years, Brodsky made an exaggerated claim to being a writer of English, a language he never mastered as memorably as Russian. In these conversations with Volkov, author of previous interview volumes with violinist Nathan Milstein, choreographer George Balanchine and, more controversially, with composer Dmitri Shostakovich, Brodsky evinces both talent and idiosyncrasy. Instead, Brodsky is given free rein to speak with an intensity that regularly gave his interlocutors nosebleeds. There are some problems: a few chapters, presented as continuous dialogues, span nearly a decade, and Volkov doesn't press Brodsky on, for example, his machinations on behalf of buddies or on the gaudy crucifixes that the Jewish-born Brodsky took to wearing. HeA comprehensive portrait of Nobel Laureate, Joseph Brodsky, based on the author's tape-recorded conversations with the poet over a period of 15 years. From imprisonment in the Soviet Union and flight to the West, to a new beginning in the United States, Brodsky's life was epic in scope.
- Title : Conversations With Joseph Brodsky: A Poets Journey Through The Twentieth Century
- Author : Solomon Volkov
- Rating : 4.54 (151 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-1-19
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 320 Pages
- Asin : 068483572X
- Language : English
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