Brodsky abroad. Empire, tourism, nostalgia

Sent by the authorities from the Soviet Union in 1972 and awarded the Nobel Prize 15 years later, Joseph Brodsky continued in many ways the great tradition of the Plaintic poet. However, the years spent far from their homeland did not make it a recluse. Although he never returned to his beloved Leningrad, he could freely travel the world and write about him. The focus of the author of the monograph is the analysis of the poems and the Brodsky’s essay about Mexico, Brazil, Turkey and Venice. In an effort to challenge the prevailing ideas about Brodsky as a leading emigrant poet and heir to European modernism, the sanna of Turomas immerses the studied materials into the unusual context of a modern traverse. The author sees in Brodsky’s travel notes his reaction not only to his exile, but also to the post -modern and post -slope landscape, which initially formed these texts. In his Latin American verses, Brodsky resorts to the genre of ironic elegy, rejecting Mexico postcolonial realities in this way. In the essay about Istanbul, the poet enters into a contradictory dispute about orientalism, relying on the usual idea of ​​Russia as a place where the East meets the West. And Venice, a reference tourist city, becomes for the Brodsky place to rethink its lyrical essence. The Turomas draws the previously unreleased trajectory of the poet’s evolution from a single dissident to a famous writer and offers a new look at the geopolitical, philosophical and linguistic prerequisites for his poetic imagination. Sanna of Turoma is a researcher at the Alexander Institute of Helsinki (Finland)