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Posted: 05 May 2022

Taken: 05 May 2022

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Collected Poems in English •
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Nobel Prize laureate. •

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The trial of Joseph Brodsky was in many ways a harbinger of the new era to come. The fact that it was held at all was a novelty: the past, people who irritated the state had not been tried in public except in pre-arranged show trials, if they were tried at all. More important, Brodsky’s behavior at the trial was enough to prove that he already belonged to a different generation from Solzhenitsyn, and from the political prisoners of the recent past.

Brodsky once wrote that his generation was “spared” the experience of indoctrination endured by those just a few years older. “We emerged from under the post-war rubble when the state can too busy patching its own skin and couldn’t look after us very well. We entered schools, and whatever elevated rubbish we were taught there, the suffering and the poverty were visible all around. You cannot cover a ruin with a page of ‘Pravada”

Predictably, all of that unofficial activity brought Brodsky to the attention of the secret police, Brodsky was not a poet licensed by the Writer’s Union, he qualified as a vagrant. At his trial in February 1964, the state produced witnesses, mostly unknown to Brodsky, who testified that he was “morally depraved, a draft-dodger, and writer of anti-Soviet verses.” In his defence, there were letters and speeches from famous poets and writers, including Akhmatova. . . Page 531
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