How to read the book / How to Read a Book. Brodsky I.

The collection includes the essay of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), in which the poet discusses the nature of creativity and inspiration, the role of poetry and literature in the life of society, about the mythology around the personality of the Creator, which has developed throughout human history. These essays, written by the author in English in the late 1980s-early 1990s, were published in New York in the collection “On Grief and Reason” (“On Sorrow and Reason”). In this edition, they are presented both in the original and translated into Russian.