List of Brodsky's books to be read, that was what talking to you

Brodsky has studied all 7 classes in high school, and he felt unbearably boring. He threw studies and went to work at the plant. At the factory, he also did not last long, only six months. Then he had a job in a lighthouse, in the crystallographic laboratory at the morgue. For a while he worked as a laborer in a geological expedition and stoker in the bath.

When Joseph A. emigrated to the United States, despite the lack of special education, immediately I received an invitation to teach at five US colleges. Lessons he spent unusual: there were no lectures and seminars. He talked with the students and talked about their favorite writers. In this ever drank coffee and smoked a lot.

Despite the lack of higher education, Brodsky I read a lot. Therefore, it is surprising that students of literature, can not say the same. One day, Brodsky sat down at the typewriter and wrote a list of books that should be read each. Today we publish photos of these records, and he list of books with links to resources where you can buy them.

1. "Bhagavad Gita" (buy Litres.ru →).

2. "Mahabharata" (buy Litres.ru →).

3. "Epic of Gilgamesh" (buy Labirint.ru →).

4. Old Testament (buy Litres.ru →).

5. Homer. "Iliad", "Odyssey" (free download on Litres.ru →).

6. Herodotus. "Story" (buy Litres.ru →).

7. Sophocles. plays (free download on Litres.ru →).

8. Aeschylus. plays (buy Labirint.ru →).

9. Euripides. Play "Hippolytus", "The Bacchae," "Elektra", "Phoenician" (buy Litres.ru →).

10. Thucydides. "History of the Peloponnesian War" (buy on Amazon.com →).

11. Plato. "Dialogues" (buy Litres.ru →).

12. Aristotle. "Poetics", "Physics", "Ethics", "On the soul" (free download on Litres.ru →).

13. Alexandrian poetry (buy on Amazon.com →).

14. Lucretius. "On the Nature of Things" (buy Labirint.ru →).

15. Plutarch. "Comparative biography" (buy Litres.ru →).

16. Virgil. "Aeneid", "Bukoliki", "Georgics" (buy Litres.ru →).

17. Tacitus. "Annals" (buy Labirint.ru →).

18. Ovid. "Metamorphosis", "Heroides", "Science of Love" (buy Litres.ru →).

19. New Testament (buy Litres.ru →).

20. Suetonius. "Lives of the Twelve Caesars" (buy Litres.ru →).

21. Marcus Aurelius (buy Litres.ru →).

22. Catullus (buy Litres.ru →).

23. Horace (buy Litres.ru →).

24. Epictetus (buy Litres.ru →).

25. Aristophanes (buy Litres.ru →).

26. Elian. "Motley stories", "On the Nature of Animals" (buy on Amazon.com →).

27. Apollodorus. "Argonautica" (buy on Amazon.com →).

28. Michael Psellus. "Chronograph" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

29. Gibbon. "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (free download on Litres.ru →).

30. Dam. "Ennead" (buy Litres.ru →).

31. Eusebius (Pamfil). "Ecclesiastical History" (free download on Litres.ru →).

32. Boethius. "Consolation of Philosophy" (buy on Amazon.com →).

33. Pliny the Younger. "Letters" (buy on Amazon.com →).

34. Byzantine poetic novels.

35. Heraclitus of Ephesus. "Fragments" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

36. Augustine. "Confession" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

37. Thomas Aquinas. "Summa Theologica" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

38. "Flowers of St. Francis" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

39. Niccolo Machiavelli. "Sovereign" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

40. Dante. "The Divine Comedy" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

41. Franco Sacchetti. Novels (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

42. Icelandic sagas (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

43. Shakespeare. "Antony and Cleopatra", "Hamlet", "MACBETH", "Henry V» (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

44. Rabelais (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

45. Bacon (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

46. Martin Luther (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

47. Calvin (buy on Amazon.com →).

48. Montaigne. "Experiments" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

49. Cervantes. "Don Quixote" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

50. Descartes (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

51. "Song of Roland" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

52. "Beowulf" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

53. Benvenuto Cellini (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

54. Henry Adams. "Education of Henry Adams" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

55. Hobbes. "Leviathan" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

56. Pascal. "Thoughts" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

57. Milton. "Lost heaven" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

58. John Donne (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

59. Andrew Marvell (buy on Amazon.com →).

60. George Herbert (buy on Amazon.com →).

61. Spinoza. "Treatise" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

62. Stendhal. "Charterhouse of Parma", "Red and Black", "Life Henri Brulard" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

63. Swift. "Gulliver's travels" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

64. Laurence Sterne. "Tristram Shandy" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

65. Choderlos de Laclos. "Dangerous ties" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

66. Montesquieu. "Persian Letters" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

67. Locke. "Two Treatises of Government" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

68. Adam Smith. "The wealth of nations" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

69. Leibnitz. "Discourse on Metaphysics" (buy on Amazon.com →).

70. Hume (buy on Amazon.com →).

71. "The Federalist Papers" (buy on Amazon.com →).

72. Kant. "Critique of Pure Reason" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

73. Kierkegaard. "Fear and Trembling," "either-or", "Philosophical Fragments" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

74. Dostoevsky. "Notes from the Underground", "Demons" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

75. Goethe. "Faust", "Italian Journey" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

76. Tocqueville. "Democracy in America" ​​(buy on Amazon.com →).

77. De Custine. "The journey of our days" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

78. Eric Auerbach. "Mimesis" (buy on Amazon.com →).

79. Prescott. "The Conquest of Mexico. Conquest of Peru "(buy on Amazon.com →).

80. Octavio Paz. "The Labyrinth of Solitude" (buy on Amazon.com →).

81. Karl Popper. "Logic of Scientific Discovery", "The Open Society and Its Enemies" (buy Litres.ru →, buy on Amazon.com →).

82. Elias Canetti. "Crowds and Power" (buy on Amazon.com →).

Poetry Recommended Reading

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 Huchel, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gottfried Benn.

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

Polish: Leopold Staff, Czeslaw Milosz, Zbigniew Herbert, Wislawa Szymborska.

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

Greek: Constantine Cavafy, Giorgos Seferis, Yiannis Ritsos.

Dutch: Martinus Nijhoff ( "Avatar").

Portuguese: Fernando Pessoa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Swedish: 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.