“I allow myself everything except complaints”: 80th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Brodsky
2020-05-24T08:09:32.295Z
May 24, the poet Joseph Brodsky could have turned 80. In the early 1960s, he gained fame in Leningrad literary circles, and then was convicted of parasitism and sentenced to five years of forced labor in the North (later reduced to a year and a half). Brodsky returned from exile as an established poet, and several years later he was forced to emigrate from the USSR. The writer, who did not graduate from the eight classes of the school, taught for many years at leading Western universities. In 1987, he became a Nobel Prize laureate. Among Brodsky’s most famous poems are “Don't Leave the Room ...”, “Christmas Romance”, “Pilgrims” and “I have always said that fate is a game ...”. The poet died on January 28, 1996.
Source: russiart