‘On the outskirts of the Empire’: Joseph Brodsky and Lithuania

Yasha Klots

Journal of Baltic Studies, 2017, vol. 48, issue 3, 331-349

Abstract: This article explores the role of Lithuania in Joseph Brodsky’s life and works before and after his exile from Russia in 1972. As a former Soviet republic, Lithuania represented an intermediary space for Brodsky both culturally and geographically, contributing to his realization that it was a ‘rehearsal’ for his actual emigration. However, Brodsky’s notion of Lithuania changes when, after 1972, instead of representing a simulacrum of the ‘abroad,’ the poet sees Lithuania as a ‘home’ from afar. Emigration, in Brodsky’s case, thus became a realization of the myth of exile implicit in his earlier texts about Lithuania.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01629778.2016.1178654

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