Volume 43, Number 2 · February 1, 1996
Speaking for Language
By J.M. Coetzee
On Grief and Reason: Essays
by Joseph Brodsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 412 pp., $24.00
In 1986 Joseph Brodsky published Less than One, a book of essays. Some of the essays were translated from the Russian; others he wrote directly in English, showing that his command of the language was growing to be near-native.
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