Sobre o Exílio
1988
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4.18
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O destino quis que Joseph Brodsky pronunciasse, a distância de poucos dias, no outono de 1987, os dois discursos aqui reunidos, que assumem um lugar simbólico na sua obra. Ambos são discursos sobre o exílio e do exílio. Mas aqui o exílio é uma categoria metafísica, antes de ser política. Isso permite a Brodsky evitar, desde o início, o risco mais atraente do exilado, aquele de colocar-se do “lado banal da virtude”. Para Brodsky a literatura não serve para salvar o mundo, mas é um “extraordinário acelerador da consciência”.
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Joseph Brodsky
Author · 17 books
Joseph Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Бродский] was a Russian-American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad in 1940, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, settling in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters. He taught thereafter at several universities, including Yale, Columbia, and Mount Holyoke. Brodsky was awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." A journalist asked him: "You are an American citizen who is receiving the Prize for Russian-language poetry. Who are you, an American or a Russian?" Brodsky replied: "I'm Jewish; a Russian poet, an English essayist – and, of course, an American citizen." He was appointed United States Poet Laureate in 1991.
