Boris Pasternak (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Barnes
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1890-1928
- Setting: Russia and Germany
- Principal Characters: Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Leonid Osipovich Pasternak, Rozaliya Isidorovna Pasrernak, Pianist Evgeniya Vladimirovich Pasternak, Anna Andreyevna Akhmato’a, Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam, Vladimir Vladimirovich Ma’arovsky, Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Music or musicians, Literature, Class consciousness, Poetry or poets, Jews or Jewish life, Painting or painters, Russia or Russian people, Illustrators
- Locales: Germany, Russia
Many books were published to coincide with the centenary of Boris Pasternak’s birth, including new translations and reissues of several of his works as well as critical studies. Particularly noteworthy is Donald Davie’s Slavic Excursions: Essays in Russian and Polish Literature (1990). This collection reprints in its entirety Davie’s 1965 study The Poems of Doctor Zhivago, which includes Davie’s translation of the poems followed by a poem-by-poem commentary. Slavic Excursions also includes two other essays that discuss Pasternak.
Several of the new...
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