Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries (Vol 2) [Hardcover]

In the new second volume of Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, the collection of interviews features eye-witness accounts of Joseph Brodskys friends and family members, publishers, editors, translators, students, and fellow poets including John Le Carre, Oleg Tselkov, Petr Vail, Bengt Jangfeldt, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, and others. This collection of 40 interviews illuminates an intriguing contemporary phenomenon and affords a fascinating insight into the American literary scene. Continuing the discussion begun in the first volume, this series of interviews contains important discussions on the style, ideas, and personality of one of the most brilliant and paradoxical poets of our time. Subtle, incisive, and rigorous in its critical evaluation, each discussion significantly advances our understanding of Brodsky's complex poetic world. All discussions are linked by core questions that are carefully and sometimes provocatively formulated. The interviews are published together with many unique photographs from the private archives of the author and the interviewees.Introduction. List of Photographs. Acknowledgements. I . JOHN L E CARR?. A Great Talent that was a bit of an Orphan. MIKHAIL HEIFETS . The Empire he was Loyal to was the Russian Language. LEV LOSEFF. He Lived at Extraordinary Pace. IGOR EFIMOV. Navigators in the Ocean of Spirit. GENRIKH STEINBERG . Joseph Wanted to Know Everything. EDWARD BLOOMSTEIN. Penetrating to the Depth of Things. MIKHAIL ARDOV. Leaving this Place is Impossible but Living here is also  Inconceivable. OLEG TSELKOV. With his Own Point of View on Everything. TOMAS VENCLOVA. He Tended to Ascribe his own Traits to Other Poets. VIKTOR GOLYSHEV. He was too Democratic to be an Aesthete. ALEKSANDR SUMERKIN. Continuation of Poetry by Other Means. PETR VAIL . Brodskys Poetic Globe is Equal to the Geographical one. BENGT JANGFELDT. The Terrible Fate of a Russian Poet. I I. LUDMILA SHTERN. He Needed to have this lC$