Books by Joseph Brodsky
“Brodsky lived through the first part of the siege as a baby, in a one-room flat on the Liteiny, right in the centre of town. He brilliantly describes the atmosphere of the postwar city: the bombed-out buildings – ‘haggard and hollow-eyed’ – and the feeling of emptiness, of crowding ghosts. He’s good, as well, on how pinched and harsh life continued to be well after the war. One of his earliest memories is of being given a white bread roll – not a common black one – for the first time. It was such an event that he ate it standing on a table, surrounded by admiring adults.” Read more...
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad
Anna Reid, Journalist
Interviews where books by Joseph Brodsky were recommended
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy -
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
by Vladimir Nabokov -
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A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov & translator Vladimir Nabokov -
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
by Nikolai Leskov
Books by Russian Authors
Books by Russian Authors
From the Enlightenment onwards, Russian authors have produced a vast and influential literary canon, including historic epics, absurdist classics, and tortured reflections on the human condition. Russia’s political turmoil also led to the writing of many moving memoirs and political works that sought to find solutions in spite of censorship and, for some authors, exile.
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Russia at War
by Alexander Werth -
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A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
by Vasily Grossman, edited and translated by Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova -
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Reflections on the Russian Soul
by Dmitry Likhachov -
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Less Than One
by Joseph Brodsky -
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Conversations with Stalin
by Milovan Djilas
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
The best books on The Siege of Leningrad, recommended by Anna Reid
Glorified by Russia, glossed over by the West, the siege of Leningrad is rarely seen for what it was – a tragic story of tremendous suffering and death. The author of Leningrad, Anna Reid, tells us what really happened there
