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Joseph Brodsky
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JOSEPH BRODSKY

The Art of Poetry No. 28
Interviewed by Sven Birkerts
Issue 83, Spring 1982
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From the Interview
INTERVIEWER
How long did it take you to get rid of that feeling [of persecution mania] once you landed in Austria?

BRODSKY
It’s still around, you’re cautious. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera. Because it’s all penetrated, not necessarily by the direct agents of State Security, but by those people who can be used for that.
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