Pasternak - A Critical Study

Klappentext An attempt to interpret and appraise the work of Boris Pasternak as lyrical and narrative poet! writer of prose fiction! and verse translator. Zusammenfassung Henry Gifford discusses Pasternak's choice of vocation! and then examines the poetry and stories of the 1920s and 1930s! his work as translator! his two autobiographies! the novel that brought him world fame and much personal anguish! Doctor Zhivago! his late poems and his unfinished play! The Blind Beauty. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gifford, Henry Gifford, Gifford Henry
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.11.1981
• EAN: 9780521286770
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28677-0
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: Major European Authors; Major European Authors Series
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: general