Brodsky Among Us A Memoir (jes Of Russia & Eastern Europe And Their Legacy) [Hardcover]

A searingly personal memoir of the great Russian poet by his American friend and publisher, containing much previously unknown material about how Brodsky left Russia and how he made his way in the new world, and how, during the cold war, Americans played a crucial role in his fate.Ellendea Proffer Teasleyis the author ofMikhail Bulgakov: Life & Workand co-founder ofRussian Literature TriQuarterlyand Ardis Publishers. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989.

[Ellendea Proffer Teaselys] memoir of Joseph Brodsky, withits concise and penetrating character portrayals, and the depiction of the poetsjourney from fifteen year-old school dropout to Nobel Prize winning poet, isitself a work of poetry and deserves to be included in both undergraduate and graduateprograms of Russian literature. Marya Zeigler, Department of Defense, Slavicand East European Journal Vol. 62.3

??Ellendea Proffer Teasley, in her short new memoir [Brodsky among Us] offers a different view of the poet. Its an iconoclastic and spellbinding portrait, some of it revelatory. Teasleys Brodsky is both darker and brighter than the one we thought we knew, and he is the stronger for it, as a poet and a person...?Brodsky Among Usappears to have been written in a single exhalation of memory; it is frank, personal, loving, and addictive: a minor masterpiece of memoir, and an important world-historical record. Brodsky Among Us, by Ellendea Proffer Teasley, the co-founder of the legendary American publishing house Ardis in a translation by the well-known Viktor Golyshev, has already caused a sensation&. [In this memoir] Teasley cuts against the Brodsky cult, the transformation of his poetry and prose into objects of mindless adoration. Her memoir is a call to return the human face to the image of a literary colossus&.Brodsky Among Usallows one to see this celebrity outside of his usual context, and this sharp shift of vision is what is truly in order to l£•