Uncle Joe. A Novel with Brodsky

10 hrs. 25 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vadim Mesyats

Narrator Irina Vorobyova

Description

"The Eternal Exile," "the most famous idler," "a poet without a pedestal"—over the 25 years since Brodsky’s death, so much has been said about him and his work that there’s really nothing left to add. And here comes—this kind of “Tarantino-esque” book—written by a new-generation author. Vadim Mesyats’s new book “Uncle Joe. A Romance with Brodsky” reveals unknown pages from the Nobel laureate’s life and hints that reality might have been completely different. Despite the adventurous and even fantastical plot, the novel is autobiographical. The story takes place in the 1990s of the last century in New York.

Alongside Brodsky, the book’s heroes include Ernst Neizvestny, Sergei Kuryokhin, Andrei Bitov, Aleksei Parschikov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Dmitry Prigov, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Elena Schwartz, Tatyana Tolstaya, Petr Vayl, Alexander Genis and other well-known people.