Less Than One

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Less Than One is a collection of autobiographical essays and literary criticism by Joseph Brodsky that reflects on his life, exile, and the nature of art and language.

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Less Than One canonical 6
Less Than One (title essay) 1

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instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
author Joseph Brodsky
awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
containsEssay A Guide to a Renamed City
A Room and a Half
Catastrophes in the Air
Footnote to a Poem
In a Room and a Half
linked to: A Room and a Half

Less Than One
On Tyranny
The Child of Civilization
The Condition We Call Exile
The Keening of the Dead
The Sound of the Tide
The Stone That Broke the Poet’s Back
To Please a Shadow
contributedTo Joseph Brodsky’s reputation as an essayist
countryOfOrigin United States
criticalReception highly acclaimed
discussesAuthor Anna Akhmatova
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Marina Tsvetaeva
Osip Mandelstam
W. H. Auden
discussesTheme memory and history
moral responsibility of the writer
relationship between art and politics
the nature of language
genre autobiographical essays
literary criticism
hasForm prose
hasPerspective autobiographical
émigré
influencedBy European modernism
Russian poetic tradition
language English
notableFor critical essays on Russian and European writers
reflection on exile and identity
originalPublicationYear 1986
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
subject Joseph Brodsky
Russian literature
Soviet Union
art
exile
language
poetry

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Joseph Brodsky notableWork Less Than One
A Part of Speech relatedWorkByAuthor Less Than One
Less Than One containsEssay Less Than One
Less Than One: Selected Essays hasEssay Less Than One (title essay)
linked to: Less Than One
Joseph Brodsky notableWork Less Than One
subject linked to: Anna Brodsky