The Future, or The Distant Past

The book includes essays by Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) "In Memoriam to Marcus Aurelius" and "Letter to Horace," dedicated to the culture, poetry, and philosophy of antiquity. These texts were written by the author in English in the 1990s and published in New York in the collection "On Grief and Reason." This current edition includes them in the original language and in translation into Russian, presenting the author not only as a poet but also as a profound and ironic thinker.