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Joseph Brodsky's Venice by Max Sher
“Many moons ago the dollar was 870 lire and I was thirty-two. The globe, too, was lighter by two billion souls, and the bar at the stazione where I’d arrived on that cold December night was empty. I was standing there waiting for the only person I knew in that city to meet me. She was quite late”.
That’s the beginning of Watermark – the famous 1992 English-language essay on Venice by the Russian emigré poet and Nobel Laureate in Literature Joseph Brodsky. Coming to Venice, as he confesses in his essay, was his personal vow when he still lived in Soviet Russia persecuted by the authorities and unable to travel abroad. No wonder. Everyone who was born in St. Petersburg (Brodsky was born there in 1940 into a family of a photographer) knows this city is often called Venice of the North and many want to compare it to the original.
