Index
Adamovich, Georgii
135
Akhmatova, Anna
2, 23, 31, 38, 40, 41, 58, 59, 75, 80, 81, 86, 93, 98, 99, 100, 106, 110, 120, 131, 134, 137, 139, 142–3, 150, 184, 202–3, 206, 315, 343, 362, 365, 366–7, 379, 394n
Poem without a Hero
367
Reed
134
Way of the Whole Earth, The
143
Arabov, Iurii
307, 312, 322
Ardov, Mikhail
141–2
Legendary Ordynka, The
141–2
Arendt, Hannah
27, 213–14, 216, 217
Andersen, Hans Christian
11
Andrew, Joe
53, 54, 55, 62
Aristotle
82
Armitage, Simon
40
Auden, W.H.
2, 37, 78, 98, 100, 119–20, 163, 171, 174, 186, 338, 378–9
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
171
September 1, 1939
163–4
Babel, Isaak
188
Bagritskii, Eduard
4
Balmont, Konstantin
81, 86, 87
Baratynskii, Evgenii
81, 86, 89, 130–1, 188, 191–2, 365
Desolation
191–2
Baryshnikov, Mikhail
46, 47, 48
Basmanov, Andrei
39, 60, 76, 78, 366
Basmanova, Marina
11, 31, 39, 76, 107n, 366, 398
Bedrina, Arina
21–2, 56–63, 64n
Beglov, Andrei
272–3, 276–8
Belinskii, Vissarion
129, 133
Bellow, Saul
26, 177, 182
Belyi, Andrei
271–2
Berlin, Isaiah
203–4, 367
Blake, William
136, 397–8
Blok, Aleksandr
81, 86
Bloom, Allan
26, 177, 182
Blue Lagoon
75
Bobyshev, Dmitrii
139
Bondarenko, Vladimir
8–9
Brezhnev, Leonid
99, 128
Brodsky, Alexander
41, 75, 116, 226, 370
Brodsky, Anna-Maria
39, 59, 60, 76, 78, 109–10
Brodsky, Joseph passim
Afghan War and
167–70, 225, 227, 238–43
Ann Arbor and
68, 70
antiquity and
10–11, 26–7, 151–3, 179, 200–21, 227–8
anti-Semitism and
6
arrest, trial and exiles
2–3, 9, 57–8, 73, 100, 119, 129, 145, 171, 201, 317, 331–59, 364, 366
Ballad about a Tugboat
67, 314
‘Bay is shining, and the wind carries ...’
275–6, 279, 284, 290
Beinecke Archive
39, 46, 47, 331n, 334
Blizzard in Massachusetts
326, 369–70
Bobo’s Funeral
377
Bosnia Tune
229
Burning
396
Bust of Tiberius, The
108
‘But, apparently, the air is only raw material for lace’
326
Butterfly, The
113–14, 154, 155, 158
Candlestick, The
107
cats and
52–3, 110, 140, 315–7, 319–20, 332, 347, 353, 356
children’s poems
57
China and
11–12
Christianity and
9, 26, 106, 160–1, 161n, 162, 162n, 177, 183–4, 210
classicism and
26–7, 151–3, 169–70, 200–21
Coat of Arms
279, 284, 290
‘Condition We Call Exile, The’
171–2, 181–2
‘Consciousness, like a sixth lesson ...’
272, 279, 284, 290
Conversation with a Heaven Dweller
183–4
December in Florence
106
dissident as
7, 130, 173, 324
drawings
38
Embankment of the Incurable
39
empire and
11, 72, 120, 151–3, 177, 178, 179–98, 208–14, 227, 245, 249–50, 256–63, 267
End of a Beautiful Era, The
3, 40, 70, 99–100, 116n, 121, 193
English poetry and
12, 13, 14n
Epistles to Viktor Golyshev and Andrei Sergeev
277, 280, 284, 289, 290, 299–301
Farewell Ode
31, 375–98
‘Farther and farther from your country ...’
279, 284, 289, 290
‘Flight from Byzantium’
117–19, 121, 123
For a Family Album
279, 284, 290, 293–6
Fountain in Memory of the Heroes of the Defence of the Hanko Peninsula, The
230–2
Fourth Eclogue (Winter)
166, 170
‘Gardener in a quilted jacket, like a thrush ...’
279, 284, 289, 290, 291–3
Gorbunov and Gorchakov
398
Great Elegy to John Donne, The
21n, 368, 393, 397–8
Great Hector has been killed by arrows
209, 228, 236–8
Hawk’s Cry in Autumn, The
393
‘Haystack and the sheepfold ..,’
279, 284, 286, 290
‘He knew that this pain in his shoulder ...’
279, 284, 290, 296–9
Hundred Years’ War, The
398
‘I’m telling you the wrong thing ...’
279, 283–4, 286, 290
‘In a Room and a Half’
6, 306–7, 312, 314
In memory of E.A. Baratynskii
279, 284, 290
Isaac and Abraham
183, 185, 208, 262–3, 398
Islam and
10, 24, 96, 116–19, 122–3, 162
Italy and
5
‘I’ve passed through the monastery garden ...’
279, 283, 284, 286, 289, 290
‘I woke up in a sweat ...’
278, 284, 290
jazz and
5, 227
Jewish Cemetery near Leningrad, The
28, 185, 245, 247–56, 258
Jewishness and Judaism
5, 6–7, 9, 26, 28, 157–61, 161n, 162, 177, 179, 182–94, 245–67, 313
Kellomäki
396n
language and
91, 93–4, 105–6, 149, 151, 160–1, 171–5, 181–2, 186, 302, 378–9
Less Than One
3, 99n
‘Less Than One’
202–3, 327n, 338
Letter to General Z.
227, 229–30
Letter to the President
163
Letters from the Ming Dynasty
11
Letters to a Roman Friend
72, 121, 179–81, 227
Liejyklos
279, 284, 286–7, 290
Lines on the Winter Campaign
167–70, 227–8, 238–43
Lithuanian Divertisssement
28, 180, 245, 247, 256–63, 279, 284, 286–7, 290
‘Look at the wooden house ...’
278, 279, 284, 290
Lullaby of Cape Cod
21n
Maddening Space
343
Maramzin Collection
64, 75–6, 343
Marbles, The
3, 151–3, 217
metaphor and
15, 23, 72–3, 80–95
Midday in the Room
92
Morning Post
277, 279, 284, 290
Morton Street and
68, 334, 354–5
Museum in St Petersburg
21–2, 35–55, 56–63, 150
My People
184–6
Nativity poems
9, 162n
New Stanzas for Augusta
31, 375, 379, 395, 397
‘Night-black sky shone brighter than his legs, The’
30–1, 362–74
Nobel Prize for Literature / Nobel Speech
2, 75, 98, 99, 132, 133, 145, 171, 172, 178, 202, 313, 337, 350–1
Odysseus to Telemachus
169n
‘Oh this temptation of weaving rhymes ...’
279, 284, 290
On 22 December 1970
279, 284, 290
Once more we are living by the Bay of Naples
207–8
On Grief and Reason
3
On the Death of Zhukov
10, 114–15, 227, 233–5, 238, 241
On the Independence of Ukraine
1–2, 9–10, 14n, 24, 26, 97, 119–23, 150, 177, 178, 186–9, 193, 194–8, 246–7
On the Talks in Kabul
10, 24, 97, 119, 122
parents and
6, 56–63, 74–5, 179, 312–28
Part of Speech, A
3, 68, 70, 208, 334
Petersburg Novel
279, 284, 290
Pilgrims
342
Plato Elaborated
179
Polish literature and
5, 26–7, 200–21, 365
Post Aetatem Nostram
179, 208, 210–11, 216–17
Postcard from Iceland, A
352
postcards and
30, 331–59
Post-Soviet Russia and
8–9, 25–6, 75, 126–48, 149–75
‘Profile of Clio’
181, 186, 187
Raven Steed, A
364, 366
reception of
25, 28, 126–48, 149–75
reification as a theme
96–8
Riddle for an Angel
279, 284, 290
Room and a Half and
21–2, 48, 56–63, 75
Room and a Half and
29–30, 305–28
Rotterdam Diary
232–3
St Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd and
5–6, 7, 8, 13, 21–2, 27, 56–63, 67–8, 129, 131–2, 133–4, 135, 137, 138, 139, 141–2, 144, 150, 185, 192, 202–4, 207–8, 225–6, 247–56, 258, 305–28, 333, 343
sculptural myth and
105–10
Sea Manoeuvres
167
Selected Poems in English
3
Shape of Time, The
40
Singing without Music
279, 284, 290
Sketch, A
278, 284, 290
Solitude
378
Soviet Union, The and
4–7, 14n, 22, 26–7, 28, 30, 57, 58, 61, 64, 67–8, 111, 116, 119, 121, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 143, 145, 150, 161, 162, 173, 179–80, 183, 184, 187, 200–21, 225, 227–8, 243, 245, 247, 249, 250–2, 256–7, 260–2, 265, 267, 317, 324–5
Speech about Spilt Milk
116
‘Spoils of war’
225–6
Stanzas
133–4
Stanzas: Like a Glass
378
Stanzas to the City
326
Still Life
107
Stop in the Desert, A
348, 364
‘There comes a time of regrets ...’
279, 284, 290
This is a series of observations
166
‘This was sailing through the fog’
369
Three Chapters
278, 284, 290
‘Three months in a row now ...’
277, 279, 284, 290
time as a theme
92–4, 378–9
To a Certain Poetess
200
To My Daughter
109
‘To Please a Shadow’
171
Torso
107–8, 208
translingualism and
331–59
travel writing
7
Triton
154n
Two Hours in a Container
28, 245, 247, 263–5
Urania
3, 139, 316
USA and
2, 5, 7, 9, 26, 30, 37, 144, 178, 182, 259–61, 267, 331–59
Venice and
332–4, 339–40, 346, 347–50, 353, 356
versification and
28–9, 72, 270–305, 362–74
Vertumnus
165
view of modern civilization
149–75
war and
10, 27–8, 114–15, 167–70, 225–43
War in the Refuge of Aphrodite
235–6
Watermark: An Essay on Venice
3, 319, 333, 349, 353
Winter Has Come
398
With a Sea View
279, 284, 290
Bykov, Dmitrii
26, 68n, 150, 177, 181, 182–3, 184, 186, 189–90
Byron, Lord George Gordon
100
Camus, Albert
145
Chance Waltz, A
320–1, 327
Chekhov, Anton
193
Dante
31, 46, 48, 104, 106, 375–98
Divine Comedy, The
31, 375–98
New Life, The
31, 375–98
Derrida, Jacques
30, 262, 331, 337, 338, 344, 352, 358
Derzhavin, Gavriila
81, 102, 105, 114–15, 234
Donne, John
2, 13, 100, 338
Dostoevskii, Fedor
8, 189, 365
White Nights
8
Dovlatov, Sergei
138–9, 162
Duffy, Carol Ann
40
Dumas, Alexandre
227
Efimov, Igor
70, 220
Ehrenburg, Ilia
249, 251–2
Thaw
249
Eisenstein, Sergei
310, 318–9
Battleship Potemkin
310
vertical montage and
318–9
Eliot, T.S.
31, 130, 375
Eltsin, Boris
127–8
Esenin, Sergei
44, 51, 52
Evtushenko, Evgenii
19, 128, 171n, 260–1
Babii Iar
260–1
Wolf’s Passport
128
Fellini, Federico
309, 325
Amarcord
309, 325
Fisher, Roy
16
Foucault, Michel
130
French Impressionistic Cinema
310–11
Freud, Sigmund
161
Frost, Robert
98, 100, 120
Gandlevskii, Sergei
25, 126, 135, 144
‘Genius of Solitude, The’
135
Gendelev, Mikhail
157–60
Ceremonial March, The
160
Genette, Gérard
83–4
Goethe, Johann
194
Goldshtein, Aleksandr
150n
Gorbachev, Mikhail
5
Gordin, Iakov
22, 38, 56, 58, 60, 62, 75, 77, 308, 397–8
Grigorev, Apollon
151
Hardy, Thomas
100, 110, 120
Afterwards
110
Havel, Vaclav
27, 163, 214–16
‘Power of the Powerless, The’
215–16
Heaney, Seamus
16, 19, 48
Herbert, Zbigniew
26–7, 200–21
From Mythology
217–18
Report from Paradise
214–15
Return of the Proconsul, The
212–14
Hitler, Adolf
163–4
Homer
235
Illiad, The
235
Iakovenko, Aleksandr
39, 48, 60
Iangfeldt, Bengt
9, 160
Jabotinsky (Ze’ev), Vladimir
26, 177, 189–94
Five, The
190–4
‘Lesson of Shevchenko’s Jubilee, The’
193
Jakobson, Roman
98, 102–3
Kant, Immanuel
112
Kantemir, Antiokh
202
Karamzin, Nikolai
100, 105
Keats, John
136
Keele University
19–20, 31, 36, 37, 39, 53, 66, 72, 80, 110
Khodasevich, Vladislav
12, 135
‘Shaken Tripod, The’
135
Khlebnikov, Velimir
23, 73, 80–95
Numbers
91
Razin
87
Skull-cap of the Scythian, The
92
Khrushchev, Nikita
174, 204–5
Khrzhanovskii, Andrei
29–30, 305–28
Cat and a Half, A
315–6
Glass Harmonica, The
309
Nose, or the Conspiracy of Mavericks, The
309
Pushkiniana
309
Kierkegaard, Søren
71
Kjellberg, Ann
3, 76, 77
Kline, George L.
3, 31, 77, 208, 226, 362–74
Kullback-Leibler divergence
270, 287, 288
Kundera, Milan
189
Kushner, Aleksandr
13, 25, 74, 76, 126, 136, 138, 140, 316–7
Milfoil
136
‘To the Memory of Joseph Brodsky’
139
Kuznetsova, Anastasiia
39, 54, 60, 76, 78
Lenin, Vladimir
174, 214
Lepskii, Iurii
60
Lermontov, Mikhail
170, 238–43
Dream, The
170, 238–43
Lifshits, Vladimir
67, 69, 71–2
Campfire and
67
James Clifford
71–2
Longfellow, Henry
255
Jewish Cemetery at Newport
255
Loseff (Losev), Lev
5, 11, 13, 14n, 15, 22–3, 39, 46, 47, 64–79, 100, 144–5, 188, 219, 261–2, 263, 265–6, 345, 350, 365
Brodsky’s Poetics
74
Campfire and
67, 314
‘From Nowhere with Love’
70
Joseph Brodsky. A Literary Life
5, 77, 144, 226,
On the Beneficence of Censorship. Aesopian Language in Modern Russian Literature
71
Lowell, Robert
2
Maiakovskii, Vladimir
23, 80, 81, 86
Makanin, Vladimir
19
Malevich, Kazimir
373
Black Quadrilateral
373
White on White
373
Mandelshtam, Osip
2, 3, 23, 24, 26, 31, 58, 66, 80, 81, 86, 93, 96, 98, 99, 106, 116–17, 120, 137, 177, 185, 200, 202, 375, 376, 378
Conversation on Dante
376
Verses about the Unknown Soldier
376
Marx, Karl
161
Michnik, Adam
6
Milchik, Mikhail
21–2, 40, 41, 42, 44, 49, 50, 51, 56–63, 64n, 308
Miłosz, Czesław
12, 48, 202, 205, 208–10, 218–20, 365, 371
Motion, Andrew
39
Myers, Alan
3, 60
Myers, Diana
60
Nabokov, Vladimir
8, 58, 155–9, 190, 272, 313
Gift, The
156
Glorious Ending of the Unnoticed Generations, The
141
Lolita
313
Speak, Memory
156–7, 190
Naiman, Anatolii
74, 141
Nekrasov, Nikolai
129, 184
Neo-Formalist Circle, The
31, 73, 362
Nora, Pierre
25, 126–7
Novyi mir
5, 17, 20, 36
Orwell, George
153, 173
1984
173
Ovid
117, 134
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
311
Pasternak, Boris
2, 23, 26, 36, 77, 80, 81, 137, 145, 177, 397
Doctor Zhivago
397
Perestroika
58
Peter the Great
208
Picasso, Pablo
370n
Guernica
370n
Plato
24, 96, 111–13, 115–16, 118
Platonov, Andrei
174, 189
Poetic Cinema
305–28
Polukhina, Valentina
2, 5, 12, 13, 14–23, 31, 35–55, 101, 110–11, 150, 154, 161, 226, 365, 371, 373, 375–6
Big Book of Interviews
38, 57, 60
Brodsky Archive and
21–2, 35–55, 56–63
Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries
13, 38, 57, 58, 60, 68n, 74, 76n, 133, 178–9
Dictionary of Colour in Joseph Brodsky’s Poetry
60
Girl from Siberia, The
62
Joseph Brodsky: A Poet for Our Time
13, 25, 37, 57, 73, 111, 142, 149
Loseff, Lev and
13, 15, 22–3, 64–79
Of Those Who Did Not Forget Me
38, 41, 59
Poetry of Joseph Brodsky, The (A Study of Metaphor) (PhD Dissertation)
72, 80–95
Russian Poets Fund
19–20, 39, 48
Shepherdess of Russian Poets
17n, 65–6
To Please a Shadow
78
Proffer, Carl
30, 68, 331–59, 364
Prokhanov, Aleksandr
266–7
Steamship Joseph Brodsky
266–7
Proust, Marcel
309, 325, 327
In Search of Lost Time
309, 325
Pushkin, Alexander
11, 24, 26, 37, 38, 46, 48, 71, 74, 96–125, 127–8, 141, 151, 177, 188, 194, 259, 350, 375–6
Boris Godunov
104n
Bronze Horseman, The
102, 104, 208
Evgenii Onegin
103
Exegi Monumentum
102, 105
Gavriiliada
103n
Goncharov family and
102–4
History of the Village Goriukhino, The
101
Poet, The
143
Prophet, The
102, 104n
Reminiscences in Tsarskoe Selo
102
Ruslan and Liudmila
11, 140
sculptural myth and
101–5
Stone Guest, The
102, 103n, 104
Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The
102, 104
Putin, Vladimir
174
Quintillian
82
Ratushinskaia, Irina
19
Reid, Robert
19, 39
Rein, Evgenii
13, 74, 76, 139–40, 308, 316
I Am Bored without Dovlatov
139
‘Poet about the Poet’
140–1
Richards, I.A.
82
Ricoeur, Paul
83
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
163–4
Rushdie, Salman
162
‘Russkii mir’
25, 149, 150
Samizdat
27, 57, 75, 205n, 220–1
Said, Edward
10
Savitskii, Dmitrii
6
Scott, Sir Walter
100
Sedakova, Olga
19, 31, 39, 110, 142, 143–4
Brodsky’s Death
143–4
In Memory of the Poet
142–3
Shakespeare, William
100
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
136
Shevchenko, Taras
26, 177, 188–9, 193–4
Shklovskii, Viktor
8, 30, 120n, 306, 307, 309–10, 312
Shostakovich, Dmitrii
309n, 320, 368
Motherland Hears, The
320
Siniavskii, Andrei
19
Skovoroda, Hryhorii
2
Slutskii, Boris
4, 12, 178, 179, 183, 187–8, 228, 250, 364–5, 371
About Jews
250
Sobchak, Anatolii
5–6, 58
Socrates
111n, 112–13, 115–16, 118, 122, 152–3
Sokurov, Aleksandr
307n
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
9, 129, 164, 246, 248, 260, 262, 265–6
Sophocles
228, 235, 237
Sozzani, Maria
41, 76, 100, 351
Stalin, Joseph and Stalinism
99, 134, 162, 174, 200, 202, 203–6, 214, 217, 220, 227, 234, 249, 255, 266, 309n, 320
Taranovsky, Kiril
272, 276, 278, 289
Tarkovskii, Andrei
309, 311, 312, 365
Andrei Rublev
365
Mirror, The
309
Voyage in Time
311
Tarzan films
227, 322
Teasley, Ellendea Proffer
68, 182, 332n
Thaw, The
5, 248–56
Tolstaia, Tatiana
134–5
‘In Memory of Brodsky’
134
Tolstoi, Lev
31, 70
Tomashevskii, Boris
101, 255, 272
Tsvetaeva, Marina
2, 12, 23, 58, 77, 80, 81, 86, 98, 120, 142–3, 145
Turgenev, Ivan
31
Tynianov, Iurii
24, 96, 97, 120
Ufliand, Vladimir
70, 77, 308
Vail, Petr
77
Vakhtin, Boris
11
Venclova, Tomas
9, 12, 16, 60, 175, 206, 257
Verne, Jules
227
Virgil
117, 170n, 395
Volkov, Solomon
3–4, 168
Voltaire
100
Vorobiov, Maria
31, 331–59
Wadsworth, William
7
Walcott, Derek
3, 16
Weissbort, Daniel
20, 39, 42, 46, 49, 53, 54, 66–7, 110
Wigzell, Faith
42, 60
Williams, Rowan
39
Woolf, Virginia
144
‘A Room of One’s Own’
144
Yeats, W.B.
98
Sailing to Byzantium
117
Yurchak, Alexei
57
Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More
57
Zabolotskii, Nikolai
368
Zamiatin, Evgenii
153, 173
We
173
Zhukov, Georgii (Marshall)
227
Žižek, Slavoj
306, 311–12
Zvezda journal
38, 58