About the book: year / The name of Joseph Brodsky is surrounded by myths that he mainly created himself. We know Brodsky - essayist, playwright, critic, translator, dissident, master of thoughts and creator of a literary canon on two continents. No one has given so many interviews to journalists, advice to politicians, or analyzed the work of so many poets; no one had so many imitators and followers, no one was dedicated to so many memories, conferences, poetry readings, theatrical performances; no one has shrouded their talent and erudition in such a halo of secrecy; no one was so canonized during his lifetime. The author reflects on the origins of these myths, constructing various schemes for the ascent of the hero in the spatial and temporal field. Compositionally and thematically, the narrative is incomplete and open to interpretation. And if it is a work, then only in the sense that it contains a certain sequence of events and contexts in which real meetings are interspersed with virtual and fictitious ones. The original texts of the poems quoted in the manuscript are given in the author’s translation from Russian into English and from English to Russian. Contains obscene language