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What's so maddening about it?
Perhaps the problem readers and interpreters of a contemporary author face is to take up the impromptu of a work and consider it of definitive value in terms of his epoch. This seems to be the case with this documentary on Brodsky. Take the poet and make him a product of his time without considering the response of his work and you have an indictment against your time (easy trick, by the way). Like many another in his time and geography, Brodsky had a dramatic life encompassed in an exile: out of a homeland smitten by the Stalinist terror and, worse for the poet, away from his mother tongue.

"A Maddening Space" underlines this dramatic scope and shows something of a hero that, I believe, Brodsky never intended to become. His poetry and overall writings, of genious caliber, are not presented in this video to the extend one might hope. The impression one gets, if one is not familiar enough with the works of Brodsky, is that he was a talented man of letters that suffered a lot. What about the candor -even humor- and life-commitment of his writings? Why "a maddening space" when Brodsky's poetry only expands our will to endure?

Yet, this documentary is a very well deserved tribute. A good invitation, at least, if one manages to lower the hero role and bring back the poet, the man...

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Joseph Brodsky Rules!!
This is a superb biography of the great Russian Nobel Laureate Poet Joseph Brodsky along with his powerful readings.He Rules!!It's a must see video!!