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The End of a Beautiful Era. By Joseph Brodsky. Since the stern art of poetry calls for words, I, morose, deaf, and balding ambassador of a more or less. insignificant nation that’s stuck in this super. power, wishing to spare my old brain, hand myself my own topcoat and head for the main.
The End of a Beautiful Era. Joseph Brodsky's poetry embodied his conviction that language is older than state. by Elena Gorokhova. / Share. Joseph Brodsky was born in 1940 in Leningrad, in what he called “the most beautiful city on the face of the earth.
The keen-sightedness of our days is the sort that befits the dead end whose concrete begs for spittle and not for a witty comment. Wake up a dinosaur, not a prince, to recite you the moral!
24 de dic. de 1971 · December 24, 1971. By Joseph Brodsky. For V.S. When it’s Christmas we’re all of us magi. At the grocers’ all slipping and pushing. Where a tin of halvah, coffee-flavored, is the cause of a human assault-wave. by a crowd heavy-laden with parcels: each one his own king, his own camel. Nylon bags, carrier bags, paper cones,
The Belle Époque (French pronunciation:) or La Belle Époque (French for 'The Beautiful Era') was a period of French and European history that began after the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and continued until the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
Transatlantic. By Joseph Brodsky. The last twenty years were good for practically everybody. save the dead. But maybe for them as well. Maybe the Almighty Himself has turned a bit bourgeois. and uses a credit card. For otherwise time’s passage. makes no sense. Hence memories, recollections, values, deportment. One hopes one hasn’t.
19 de oct. de 2022 · Sandwiched between the end of the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War One (WWI), La Belle Époque was a golden age of progress, innovation, and optimism in Europe.
