Inexhaustible embankment / Watermark

The Embankment of the Inexperienced is one of the most famous essays of Joseph Brodsky, dedicated to Venice. The “Incurabia Foundation” (so it sounds in Italian) really existed in the Middle Ages, and the hospital and the adjacent quarters gave the name to it, which at that time contained hopelessly sick residents infected with plague. When the epidemic that claimed thousands of lives retreated, the townspeople built in memory of the deliverance the church of Santa Maria Della Salute, which is still standing to this day. Perhaps this is a place where water and stone are connected, a place not marked on modern maps, reminiscent of the poet hometown. John Apdaik wrote: “Essay embankment of inexhaustible is an attempt to turn a point on a globe into a window into a world of universal experiences, the private experience of a chronic Venetian tourist is a crystal whose facets would reflect the fullness of life ...” This text was written in Brodsky in English In 1989. In this edition, it is published in parallel: in the original and translated into Russian, made by a famous poet, critic and translator Grigory Dashevsky