SOMETHING OR OTHER:Joseph Brodsky,Fifteen Years Later BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature On 28 January, a large group of Brodsky’s friends, acquaintances, admirers and distant relatives met in the Russian Samovar, a restaurant on West 52nd street in New York
SOMETHING OR OTHER:The Prison and Freedom of Language BY Irena Grudzińska-Gross Literature In his native language, the tone, the gesture, the emotion is fully controlled; in English, it is the effort of sounding the words that predominates. The difference in self assurance is striking