Less than one. Volume 1

The book includes chosen essays of Joseph Brodsky, the Great Poet, Translator, playwright, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1987) For the first time, this collection was published in New York in 1986 and then awarded awards of the National Council of Critics of the United States. In Russia, he fully published only once in the early 2000s and therefore can be considered a bibliographic rarity. Most of the texts were written by Brodsky in English and only a few of them in Russian. A number of translations were authorized and published during the author"s life. Especially for this publication, Maxim Nemtsov was performed a new translation of the essay. One and a half rooms, in which Brodsky recalls the parents, about his youth and the famous Muri House in Leningrad, where he lived until 1972 and from where he was forced to go to emigration