Brumfield W. C. In the Presence of Two (Future) Nobel Laureates

(Tulane University, USA)

Abstract ♦ This essay presents the author's encounters with Joseph Brodsky on two occasions: in the fall of 1972 at Berkeley and subsequently at Harvard University. The earlier encounter occurred shortly after Brodsky's arrival in the United States and provides a personal observation of the poet at a critical point in his biography. This episode also involved Czeslaw Milosz, who was at that time a professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of California.

Keywords: Joseph Brodsky, Czeslaw Milosz.

Brumfield William Craft, PhD, Professor of Slavic Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. Postal address: 6823 Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118, USA. Tel.: +1 (504) 865-5276. Email: William.brumfield@gmail.com

Citation: Brumfield, W. C. (2014)  In the Presence of Two (Future) Nobel Laureates. Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie, no. 4, pp. 331–334.

Submission date: 28.08.2014.

RUSSIAN VERSION

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Malia, M. (1961) Alexander Herzen and the Birth of Russian Socialism, 1812–1855. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. ix, 486 p.

For more information about Prof. William Brumfield, see: Zakharov, N. V.  (2014) Brumfield, William Craft. Znanie. Ponimanie. Umenie, no. 3, pp. 398–402. (In Russ.).