Tuesday, May 08, 2007

News at Eleven: Exploring [Joseph] Brodsky's early affinities

with existentialist writers such as Camus and Lev Shestov, Losev identifies what would be a theme in his poetry for decades: the opposition between aesthetic fullness that is realized in poetry, and emptiness, which took the form of various bleak images in his poems such as deserted rooms, deadened organic matter, disembodied light.

from The Times Literary Supplement: The great Brodsky

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