Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography

Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography

by Christopher Barnes
ISBN-10:
0521520738
ISBN-13:
9780521520737
Pub. Date:
02/12/2004
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521520738
ISBN-13:
9780521520737
Pub. Date:
02/12/2004
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography

Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography

by Christopher Barnes
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Overview

This is the long-awaited concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose writer, Boris Pasternak. Barnes discusses Pasternak's relations with the Communist régime and the literary establishment, his original writing, and the controversies surrounding the publication of Dr. Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521520737
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/12/2004
Series: Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography
Edition description: Pbk ed.
Pages: 512
Product dimensions: 6.02(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.22(d)

Table of Contents

1. The crisis of the lyric; 2. Time of plague; 3. New love and second birth; 4. A prisoner of the time; 5. Congress, consensus and confrontation; 6. Peredelkino and the purges; 7. Prose, obscurity and Hamlet; 8. Word War and evacuation; 9. Christopol translation; 10. War and peace in Moscow; 11. 'From immortality's archive' - birth of a novel; 12. Faustian pursuits in life and letters; 13. The darkness before dawn; 14. Creations of the Thaw; 14. The skies clear ... and darken; 16. The printing and the prize; 17. 'Other new goals': the final year; Notes, Bibliography; Index of works by Pasternak; General index.
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