Less Than One. On Grief and Reason. Essay

This edition includes the collections of essays by Joseph Brodsky «Less Than One» and «On Grief and Reason», compiled by the author himself. Most of the essays were written in English, and only a few of them were written in... Russian. In an interview on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize, Brodsky called himself «a Russian poet and an English essayist». The collection «Less Than One» was published in 1986 in New York and was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award that same year; the collection «On Grief and Reason» was published in 1995 and became Brodsky's last book printed during his lifetime. The appendix includes several essays from different years that were not included in the author's collections, including «The Embankment of the Incurable».