Typewriter
- ID-nummer
- 2001.069.001
- Titel
- Typewriter
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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Joseph Brodsky used to always pack two portable typewriters on his travels, one for Latin characters and one with the Cyrillic alphabet. But he didn't need to think of that when he spent his summers in Sweden in 1988–1994, because the writer Bengt Jangfeldt let him borrow this typewriter with Cyrillic characters.
Brodsky often had problems with machines with complicated features. That was one of the reasons why he never switched to computers, even though this would have enabled him to alternate freely between Latin and Cyrillic letters without having to drag two typewriters around with him. According to Bengt Jangfeldt, "the clatter of the typewriter and the imprint of black letters on white paper was a veritable holy process" for Brodsky.
The typewriter was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Bengt Jangfeldt in 2023. - Pristagare
- Joseph Brodsky
- Provenance
- 293 Nobel Museum Temporary
Part of Typewriter