List Brodsky

Literature, required reading. "Just so you have something to talk».

Joseph Brodsky came to America in 1974 and became a professor of the five colleges. A little later learned about it the director of Women's University Mountain Holyoke and invited the poet to teach at the Faculty of Slavic Studies, although the Brodsky left school at age 15 and had no diploma.

By teaching the poet very seriously. About any summaries, plans, lectures, traditional textbooks out of the question, he talked about the writers and poets who were close to him. The lectures Brodsky allowed himself to drink coffee and smoked a lot.

Truly he poisoned the life of only one thing - unrestrained ignorance of American youth. One day, exasperated particularly bad class, Brodsky sat down at the typewriter and hastily made "list of books that everyone should read».

We publish this list of books for intelligent conversation. And what do you read from it?

• «Bhagavad Gita»

• «Mahabharata»

• «Gilgamesh»

• The Old Testament

• Homer. "Iliad", "Odyssey»

• Herodotus. "History»

• Sophocles. Plays

• Aeschylus. Plays

• Euripides. The play "Hippolytus", "The Bacchae," "Electra," "Phoenician»

• Thucydides. "History of the Peloponnesian War»

• Plato. "Dialogues»

• Aristotle. "Poetics", "Physics", "ethics", "On the soul»

• Alexandria poetry

• Lucretius. "On the Nature of Things»

• Plutarch. "Lives»

• Virgil. "Aeneid", "Bucolics", "Georgics»

• Tacitus. "Annals»

• Ovid. "Metamorphosis", "Heroides", "Science of Love»

• New Testament

• Suetonius. "Lives of the Twelve Caesars»

• Marcus Aurelius

• Catullus

• Horace

• Epictetus

• Aristophanes

• Elian. "Motley stories", "On the Nature of Animals»

• Apollodorus. "Argonavtika»

• Psellos. "Biography of the rulers of Byzantium»

• Gibbon. "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire»

• dams. "Ennead»

• Eusebius. "Ecclesiastical History»

• Boethius. "On the Consolation of Philosophy»

• Pliny the Younger. "Letters»

• Byzantine poetic novels

• Heraclitus. "Fragments»

• Augustine. "Confessions»

• Thomas Aquinas. «Summa Theolo qica»

• St. Francis. "Flowers»

• Niccolo Machiavelli. "Sovereign»

• Dante. "The Divine Comedy»

• Franco Saket. Novels

• The Icelandic sagas

• Shakespeare. "Antony and Cleopatra", "Hamlet", "Macbeth," "Henry V»

• Rabelais

• Bacon

• Martin Luther

• Calvin

• Montaigne. "Experiments»

• Cervantes. «Don Quixote»

• Descartes

• «The Song of Roland»

• «Beowulf»

• Benvenuto Cellini

• Henry Adams. "Education of Henry Adams»

• Hobbes. "Leviathan»

• Pascal. "Thoughts»

• Milton. "Paradise Lost»

• John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Richard Crawshaw

• Spinoza. "Treatises»

• Stendhal. "Charterhouse of Parma", "Red and Black", "Life of Henri Brulard»

• Swift. "Gulliver's Travels»

• Laurence Sterne. "Tristram Shandy»

• Choderlos de Laclos. "Dangerous Liaisons»

• Montesquieu. "Persian Letters»

• Locke. "Second Treatise of Government»

• Adam Smith. "The well-being of nations»

• Leibniz

• Yum

• Texts Federalist

• Kant. "Critique of Pure Reason»

• Kierkegaard. "Fear and Trembling", "either-or", "Philosophical Fragments»

• Dostoevsky. "Notes from the Underground", "Demons»

• Goethe. "Faust", "Italian Journey»

• Tocqueville. "Democracy in America»

• De Custine. "Journey to the present day (the king of the Empire)»

• Eric Auerbach. "Mimesis»

• Prescott. "The Conquest of Mexico»

• Octavio Paz. "The Labyrinth of Solitude»

• Karl Popper. "Logic of Scientific Discovery", "The Open Society and Its Enemies»

• Elias Canetti. "The crowd and the power»

Poetry, Reading recommended

• English / American: Robert Frost, Thomas Hardy, William Butler Yeats, TS Eliot, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop.

• German: Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Peter Huhel, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gottfried Benn.

• Spanish: Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Luis Sernuda, Rafael Alberti, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Octavio Paz.

• Poland: Leopold Staff, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Wislawa Szymborska.

• French: Guillaume Apollinaire, Jules Supervielle, Pierre Reverdy, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Francis Zhamm Andre Frenot, Paul Eluard, Victor Segalen, Henri Michaux.

• Greek: Constantine Cavafy, George Seferis, Yiannis Ritsos.

• Dutch: Martinus Nijhoff ("Avatar»).

• The Portuguese Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

• Sweden: Gunnar Ekelöf, Harry Martinson, Werner Aspenstrom, Tomas Tomas Tranströmer.

• Russian: Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Vladislav Khodasevich, Viktor Khlebnikov, Nikolai Klyuev, Nikolay Z.

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