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On Grief and Reason Author: Joseph Brodsky Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: On Grief and Reason
On Grief and Reason Author: Joseph Brodsky Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: On Grief and Reason
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Introduction · · · · · ·
In this collection of essays with rich themes and vast vision, Joseph Brodsky begins with a deep and introspective look at his early experiences in Soviet Russia and his subsequent exile in the United States. Then, the author uses his amazing erudition to explore a series of topics with breadth and depth, such as the tension and change of poetry, the nature of history, and the double dilemma of exiled poets. His thoughts extend from ancient times to the present, from the ancient Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to modern and contemporary poets Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost. He combines the philosophical exploration of the nature of existence with the passionate feelings for the aesthetics of poetry to create another rare masterpiece after Less Than One.
The twenty-one essays included in the collection are roughly divided into several genres, such as memoirs, travel notes, speeches, open letters and eulogies. These essays are of various forms and lengths, but they all appeal to a common theme, namely "poetry and poets". This collection can be said to be a key to Brodsky's poetry and aesthetics, and even his ethics and worldview. Less than half a year after the last work in the collection, "In Memory of Stephen Spender", was completed, Brodsky himself passed away. Therefore, "Sorrow and Reason" became the last collection of essays published by Brodsky during his lifetime, and it is the "swan song" of Brodsky's essay writing and even his entire creation.
"Sorrow and Reason" translated and published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House is the first domestic Chinese translation of this masterpiece. It has great significance in filling the gap in the translation literature world and has irreplaceable literary and academic value.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), winner of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a literary genius who straddles the English and Russian worlds. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky spent the first half of his life in his motherland, the Soviet Union, and most of his poetry achievements were completed in Russian. In 1972, Brodsky left his homeland and settled in the United States, where he learned English from scratch and became one of the most outstanding prose masters in the English-speaking world. As he said in an interview, "I am a Jew; a Russian poet; an English prose writer." In 1986, Brodsky won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987, and was selected as the "Poet Laureate of the United States" in 1991. His representative works include the poetry collections "Selected Poems", "Parts of Words", and "To Urania", and the prose collections "Less Than One" and "Sorrow and Reason".
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Courting the Inanimate: A Letter to Horace Ninety Years Later in Memory of Stephen Spender
