Less than One. Selected Essays

The collection includes the autobiographical prose of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996), featuring such well-known essays as «Half a Room» (in this edition it is published in a new translation by Maxim Nemtsov), «Less than One», «The Embankment of the Incurables», «A Guide to the Renamed City» and others. In these texts — the story of a life, told by the great poet himself, translator, playwright, Nobel laureate, his memories of childhood, of parents, of his hometown, of travels around the world.