Brodsky photo biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. It is treated with special food, they admire them, a unique manner of writing with hidden pathetics, breakdown, irony is imitated, and the texts are disassembled into quotes. In the photo: Joseph Aleksandrovich Brodsky Extraordinary Fate prepared him along with reference to the north and imprisoned the Nobel Prize and the Order of the Honorary Legion, the unfinished basic education and career of Professor Michigansky, Yale and other prestigious universities, many years of work abroad outside the Russian language environment after deprivation of Soviet citizenship and opening new ones expressive capabilities of the native language.

Joseph Brodsky - he deliberately read his verses as a spell - mournfully, so that the audience was fascinated not by his bright performance or male charisma, but by the word itself. In the Nobel speech, he once again emphasized that "it is not a language that is his tool, but he is a means of language." His early childhood fell on the period of the Second World War and the post -war devastation.

The young Joseph Brodsky with his father in together with her mother Maria Moiseevna, who came from Daugavpils, an accountant by profession, he went into evacuation to Chernivtsi. There, a woman who owned German and French, worked in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a translator in a prisoner of war camp. The mother of Joseph Brodsky - Maria Father, Alexander Ivanovich, the son of the owner of the St.

Petersburg printing house, was a naval officer, a participant in the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad and the defense of Malaya Earth. After the victory, he worked in the Naval Museum as a photographer, and Masya, as his son called his mother, returned to her accounts and estimates. Osia learned to read at 4 years old, but at school he did not differ in good performance and behavior.

According to the memoirs of teachers, he grew stubborn and lazy, often ignored homework and interfered with lessons, although he could well become an excellent student. During his studies, he changed five schools. Joseph Brodsky in his youth in the year, without graduating from the eighth grade, Joseph quit school and went to work - with money in their family it was not very well.

Then he unsuccessfully tried to become a cadet of the Marine School and changed many working professions of a milling holder, a orderly, watchman, a stoker, participated in expeditions of geologists for several years. At the same time, he read a lot. In particular, the strongest impression on him was made by Saadi's book “Gulistan” “Pink Garden”, read on the advice of his mother, a large fan of Persian poetry.

In addition, he independently learned English and Polish. Creativity in GG. Brodsky began to write, not yet knowing that in the future he was recognized as a literary genius. His early lyrics include the poems “Farewell”, “Now I am increasingly feeling fatigue later, he was also engaged in the children's poetry“ Ballad of Little Tugus ”, translations of Polish poems and texts of the songs of The Beatles, calling them“ absolutely remarkable ”.

Joseph Brodsky in his youth once in with his friends, he considered the possibility of hijacking an airplane from Samarkand to Iran to escape from the country. This became known to the KGB on the denunciation of one of the friends, and the poet was detained for two days. In the young author, part of large literature, he first performed in public in the recreation center to them.

He read the “Jewish cemetery”, which caused a scandal and challenges for preventive conversations to the competent authorities. They started talking about him. His glory in unofficial literary circles grew rapidly. In Komarovo Brodsky, Anna Akhmatova was introduced, who became his teacher and critic. The liberties and demonstrative apoliticality of the texts of his creations encouraged the power to treat him intently and incredulously.

The publication of several verses in the dissident poetic almanac “Syntax” led to the new detention of the poet by law enforcement and finally closed the way to official literature. The persecution of the authorities after the year of the meeting of Nikita Khrushchev with cultural figures, where the head of state gave how to draw, what music and poetry should become, the authorities began to deal with unreliable people of creative professions.

Isif Brodsky hit them. The photo from the trial of Brodsky in Brodsky was arrested, accusing of parasitism. Three weeks of him mocked the psychiatric hospital during the forensic examination, and then sentenced to 5 years in the north. There, he was engaged in stones, passing cattle, built and repaired the roofs and continued to write - “Songs of a happy winter”, “slice of the honeymoon”, “letters to the wall”, etc.

In the border, on the wake of indignation against the poet’s exile, his first book “Poems and Poems” was published. And six months later, thanks to the petition of Shostakovich, Twardowski, Marshak and other pillars of Soviet culture, as well as numerous publications in the Western press and the assistance of the French philosopher, adherent of Marxism, Jean-Paul Sartra, Brodsky, prematurely liberated, and international fame came to him.After liberation, Joseph Brodsky gained fame to exclude the risk of another accusations of parasitic existence, he entered official work as a translator in the city unit of the Writers' Union.

But he was not allowed to engage in literature freely and practically did not print. However, the poet worked fruitfully: he wrote the poem “Gorbunov and Gorchaks”, the verses “Debut”, “Still Love”, “Love”, prepared the poem collection “Stop in the Desert” for the publication in the United States, the second in a row, but the first, which he personally, translated the absurd tragicomedy of T.

Stoppard “Rosencrantz and Hildensern”. At the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, she elected him as its member, providing the highest honors at her disposal. Abroad, the writer was actually sent from the country, offering: either an immediate departure or a casemate. At 32, he left his hometown, his parents and went to Vienna. There he met with the greatest poet of the last century by Wisten.

Together they visited London and took part in Poetry International. In the year, Brodsky was expelled from the country then he moved to the American Ann-Arbor, where, according to the patronage of the publisher, Karl Profer received the teacher's place at the University of Michigan. In December of that year, the dream of his St. Petersburg youth came true - he visited Venice.

Subsequently, Brodsky did not stop teaching-lectures and seminars at Columbia and New York universities, at Cambridge, Sorbonne, Kuins College and many other educational institutions of the UK, Canada, Sweden, Italy, Ireland. Joseph Brodsky at the University of Michigan in his works “End of the Beautiful Epoch”, “Part of Speech”, who marked the next stage of his creative maturity.

Joseph received US citizenship, worked in English essays, translated the verses of Russian poets, including Vladimir Nabokov. He became a member of the American Academy of Arts. True, for a short while - he left this scientific organization, protesting against the membership of Yevgeny Yevtushenko, two writers had a long -standing conflict; Being at first not to spill water with friends, later they quarreled due to ideological contradictions.

Joseph Brodsky on the left and Yevgeny Yevtushenko on the right in the city of in him systematized his prose and released “Less That One”, which became the best literary and critical work of the year and one of the reasons for the author of the National Prize of Literary Critics. Then “Urania” came out. After emigration, Brodsky no longer saw his parents. The parents of Joseph Brodsky never saw his son before his death in Brodsky’s work already had a broadest recognition, and at 47 he became the laureate of the main literary award - the Alfred Nobel Prize.

In the 10ths, finally in Russia they began to publish his works, offered to return, assigning the title of Honor citizen as a sign of gratitude and merits to the northern capital. However, Brodsky invariably rejected all invitations, noting that "one cannot enter the same river twice, even if it is Neva." A striking beauty with the eyes of the color of the emerald and dark brown hair, a silent hereditary artist, was presented to him at the celebration of the New Year.

Very soon they began to meet. Marina Basmanova went rumors that her parents were against their marriage. The son Andrei was born in them, but soon their relationship was divided. He subsequently devoted many poetic works to her. In the ballerina of the Cordobean of the Mariinsky Theater, Maria Kuznetsova gave birth to a poet an illegitimate daughter Anastasia, whom he had never seen.

For a long time, Brodsky was also very attached to Veronica Shilz, a French historian and translator. His poem “Persian arrow” is dedicated to her. Joseph Brodsky with his wife and daughter, at the end of the years, fate gave the genius a meeting with a smart and beautiful Italian with Russian roots Maria Socials, the youngest for almost 30 years. For the first time they saw at the beginning of the year in the Sorbonne, where she flew to listen to his lecture.

Then the girl wrote him a letter from Italy, in the summer they went to Sweden together, and in September they got married. He was finally unconditionally happy. In them appeared baby Anna. Death in the year, after the arrest in the case of parasitism, the writer suffered an extensive myocardial infarction. His heart attacks were repeated later. In total, Brodsky survived 4 heart attacks and 2 heart operations, but did not refuse to smoke dozens of cigarettes without a filter every day, washing them with strong coffee.

Joseph Brodsky. Geniuses and villains. He died at night from heart arrest. His body was temporarily placed in a crypt in the New York cemetery, and then reburied in Venice. By tradition, crowds of fans carry pencils to his grave. Joseph Brodsky: The latest news and articles.