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Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence, 1921-1960
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Artikel-Nr:
9780817910242
Veröffentl:
2010
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2010
Seiten:
490
Autor:
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
Gewicht:
934 g
Format:
238x164x42 mm
Serie:
Hoover Institution Press Publi
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. Born in Moscow, Pasternak is best known in the West for his monumental tragic novel on Soviet Russia, Doctor Zhivago. It is as a poet, however, that he is most celebrated in Russia. He fell out of favor with the Soviet authorities in the 1930s but somehow was spared arrest and imprisonment. He died on May 31, 1960.
This selection of Boris Pasternak's correspondence with his parents and sisters from 1921 to 1960 sheds new and revealing light on the great writer's life and work. His letters are accomplished literary works in their own right, on a par with his poetry in their intensity, frankness, and dazzling stylistic play. In addition, they offer a rare glimpse into his innermost self, significantly complementing the insights obtained from his work. Those glimpses are especially poignant in that after 1923 Pasternak was never to see his parents again.