Презентация книги Глеба Морева "Иосиф Бродский: годы в СССР. Литературная биография"

Leaving the USSR in 1972 divided the life and literary biography of Joseph Brodsky into two autonomous parts. Gleb Morev's book is dedicated to the Soviet period, which marked the formation of a literary career, the formation of the sociocultural position and ethical attitudes of the poet. At the center of the book are several plots - from the plan to escape from the USSR by plane or the famous trial for parasitism to exile to the Arkhangelsk region and travel abroad. The author focuses on the analysis of the key moments of the poet's creative path and subjects these key episodes to detailed reconstruction and new understanding. Drawing on rich documentary material and immersing it in the broad historical context of the era, Gleb Morev is looking for an answer to the main question: what is the originality and radicality of Joseph Brodsky’s literary and life project in the 1960–1970s?

Gleb Morev is a philologist and cultural historian, author of works on the poetics of Russian modernism, the books “Dissidents: Twenty Conversations” (2016), “The Poet and the Tsar: From the history of Russian cultural mythology” (2020) and “Osip Mandelstam: Fragments of a literary biography (1920–1930s)” (2022).

The presentation is led by poet and translator Evgeny Ostashevsky.

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