Believe your pain

The collection includes selected speeches by Joseph Brodsky, created by the poet in the 1980s. This is the speech delivered at the Swedish Royal Academy when receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, the 'Act Speech' given before the graduates of the oldest college in the USA, Williams College, 'In Praise of Boredom', addressed to the students of the famous Dartmouth College, as well as the 'Stadium Speech', directed at the graduates of the University of Michigan. The 'Stadium Speech' is called the speech that changed the world, and the advice to young people, built on biblical motives, became known as the 'Brodsky Commandments'. In this edition, these texts are presented in English, as well as in Russian translation.