Boris Pasternak
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- Author: Boris Pasternak
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Boris Pasternak (PAS-tur-nak) wrote only one novel, Doctor Zhivago; this work was the final product of a creative life devoted largely to poetry. Pasternak was initially recognized as a lyric poet who synthesized Symbolist musicality and Futurist colloquialism, but after the 1917 Revolution, as he indicated in his address to the First Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1934, he came to believe that poetry was in fact “pure prose in its pristine intensity.” During the Stalinist purges of the 1930’s and through World War II, Pasternak...
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