Pasternak: A Critical Study

by Henry Gifford

Overview

All the poetry quoted in Russian has a plain prose translation, so that the book can be enjoyed by the general reader as well as the specialist student of Russian language and literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853991745
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Russian Studies
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.62(d)

Table of Contents

General preface to the series; Foreword; Abbreviations; Transcription; 1. A portrait of the artist; 2. Music and Marburg; 3. A commitment to Futurism; 4. My Sister Life: the summer of 1917; 5. Poetry under the Soviets: Themes and Variations; 6. Pasternak and the new Russian prose; 7. 'From lyrical thinking to the epic'; 8. Safe Conduct, Rilke and Mayakovsky; 9. Second Birth and Georgia; 11. A fresh start in poetry: On Early Trains; 12. Doctor Zhivago; 13. The poems of Yury Zhivago; 14. The final stage: An Essay in Autobiography: When the Weather Clears: The Blind Beauty; 15. The place of Pasternak; Notes; Chronological table; Select bibliography; Index.