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Article: Obituary: Joseph Brodsky
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 30, 1996
- Author:
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In 1987 Joseph Brodsky, then 47, became the youngest person
ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. It had been widely
expected, honouring a poet who, born in one culture, had become a
master of another.
Brodsky was an only child, born in Leningrad in 1940. His
father, Alexander Brodsky, was serving as a naval officer - he only
met him once before the age of eight: his mother, Maria Volpert,
worked as a secretary, well below her intellectual capacity. In
1949, Brodsky's father was dismissed from the navy during a wave of
anti-Semitism, and could only eke out a piecemeal career as a
photojournalist. Brodsky would write about the "forty square
metres" in which the family lived in the ...
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