This is a crazy-ass article. J.B. wasn't a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1972 – the U.S.S.R. didn't let you join these kinds of organizations. He resigned in 1987.
The guy who wrote this must have been young – or simply doesn't have any notion of history.
This is a crazy-ass article. J.B. wasn't a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1972 – the U.S.S.R. didn't let you join these kinds of organizations. He resigned in 1987.
ReplyDeleteThe guy who wrote this must have been young – or simply doesn't have any notion of history.
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/20/arts/brodsky-quits-arts-group-over-yevtushenko-induction.html
Thanks for the fact-checking, Cynthia.
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