Frasi di Josif Aleksandrovič Brodskij
Josif Aleksandrovič Brodskij
Data di nascita: 24. Maggio 1940
Data di morte: 28. Gennaio 1996
Altri nomi:Brodskiy Iosif Aleksandrovich,జోసెఫ్ బ్రాడ్స్కీ
Iosif Aleksandrovič Brodskij, in russo: Иосиф Александрович Бродский?, /ɪˈosʲɪf ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈbrot͡skʲɪj/, noto anche come Joseph Brodsky, , è stato un poeta, saggista e drammaturgo russo naturalizzato statunitense. Brodskij fu insignito del Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1987 e nel 1991 fu nominato poeta laureato . Scrisse principalmente in russo, fatta eccezione per i saggi, che scrisse in inglese. È considerato uno dei maggiori poeti russi del XX secolo.
Frasi Josif Aleksandrovič Brodskij
„The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity.“
— Joseph Brodsky
Context: The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin: not even by a minority. Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets. Its proclivity for such things has to do with its innate insecurity, but this realization, again, is of small comfort when Evil triumphs.
"A Commencement Address" (1984), delivered at Williams College; As quoted in: Robert Inchausti (2014) Thinking through Thomas Merton. p. 110
