title: L’inchiostro delle emozioni. Brodskij e le diverse espressioni del trauma
abstract: Joseph Brodsky experienced the trauma of forced emigration in 1972 and, even before that, had to face imprisonment in Soviet psychiatric hospitals, persecution, isolation in the village of Norenskaya, intellectual and social marginalization due to his Jewish origins, and much more. This contribution attempts to weave together, through various sources, including the interview with Solomon Volkov, the autobiographical essay In a Room and a Half and some childhood memories, in an effort to analyse 
journal: L'Ospite ingrato