On Grief and Reason: Essays
A Writing, Nonfiction, Literature book. Whats wrong with discourses about the obvious is that they corrupt consciousness with their easiness,...
In this richly diverse collection of essays, Joseph Brodsky casts a reflective eye on his experiences of early life in Russia and exile in America. With dazzling erudition, he explores subjects as varied as the dynamic of poetry, the nature of history and the plight of the émigré writer. There is also the humorous tale of a disastrous trip to Brazil, advice to students, a homage to Marcus Aurelius and studies of Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, Horace and others. The second volume of essays following Less Than One, this collection includes Brodsky's 1987 Nobel Lecture, 'Uncommon Visage'.
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Whats wrong with discourses about the obvious is that they corrupt consciousness with their easiness, with the speed with which they provide one with moral comfort, with the sensation of being right. Joseph Brodsky, On Grief And Reason: Essays // Plain and simply, a love lyric is ones soul set in motion. If its good, it may do the same to you. Joseph Brodsky, On Grief And Reason: Essays // Whether pleasant or dismal, the past is always a safe territory, if only because it is already experienced, and the species' capacity to revert, to run backward -especially in its thoughts or dreams, since there we are safe as well - is extremely strong in all of us, quite irrespective of the reality we are facing. Yet this machinery has been built into us, not for cherishing or grasping the past (in the end, we don't do either), but more for delaying the arrival of the present - for, in other words, slowing down a bit the passage of time. Joseph Brodsky,...
Twenty-one essays by the Nobel prize-winning poet. Two of the essays are his Noble lecture and his acceptance speech, and many of the other essays were written for occasions or lectures. What makes these essays stick is that Brodsky has the knack of living in his prose pieces and imbuing them with his warm, intelligent personality.... Um resuminho dos dois primeiros textos, s para dar um gostinho. O "Grief and Reason" propriamente dito, sobre o Robert Frost, um primor.Spoils of War.Reminiscncias do ps-guerra, na Rssia. As crianas, diz Brodsky, foram as pessoas que mais lucraram com a guerra, com as coisas que tinham para fantasiar e romantizar, especialmente as vindas... On Grief and Reason is a collection of twenty-one essays, all but one written since 1986. Of these, some are without question on a par with the best of his earlier collection, Less Than One. In Spoils of War, for instancean essay classical in form, light in touchBrodsky continues the amusing and sometimes poignant story of his youth,...
