Boris Pasternak
A Literary Biography
2 Volume Paperback Set
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- Author: Christopher Barnes
- Date Published: December 2004
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521520744
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The definitive biography of Boris Pasternak, a major twentieth-century Russian author and the creator of Dr Zhivago, is now available for the first time as a two-volume set in paperback. Drawing on archive material (including the Pasternak family archive), eyewitness accounts and a huge range of biographical and background information, Christopher Barnes brings to light many aspects of Pasternak's personality and private life, while illuminating his relations with the Communist régime and the literary establishment. There is a detailed discussion of Pasternak's original writing (with ample quotation in English translation), and his translations of Goethe, Shakespeare and others. Barnes traces the origins and development of Dr Zhivago, and explores the personal and political implications of the novel's controversial publication. The biography concludes with a discussion of Pasternak's Nobel Prize award, Final Years and Death, and with a brief account of his posthumous and artistic legacy.
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- Date Published: December 2004
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521520744
- length: 1036 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 61 mm
- weight: 1.58kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Origins and infancy
2. School and Scriabin
3. Revolution and Berlin
4. Youth's impressions, literature and music
5. Literature, love and creativity
6. Philosophy in Moscow and Marburg
7. A literary launch
8. Wartime in the Urals and Over the Barriers
9. Quiet Hills and revolution
10. Civil war activities
11. Berlin interlude
12. Malady Sublime and the air of history
13. The epic age
14. Breaches, losses, and lyric revival
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Volume 2:
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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