Boris Pasternak - A Literary Biography

Klappentext This concluding volume of Christopher Barnes s acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose-writer Boris Pasternak covers the period from 1928 to his death! during which he wrote the famous Dr Zhivago and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Drawing on archive material (including the Pasternak family archive)! eyewitness accounts and a huge range of biographical and background information! Barnes brings to light many aspects of Pasternak s personality and private life! while illuminating his relations with the Communist r me 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. The growth story of Dr Zhivago is traced! and the personal and political implications of the novel s controversial publication explored. The biography concludes with a discussion of Pasternak s Nobel Prize award! final years and death! with a brief account of his posthumous and artistic legacy. Zusammenfassung This concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose-writer Boris Pasternak includes discussion of the controversies surrounding publication of Dr Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christopher Barnes, Christopher (University of Toronto) Barnes, Barnes Christopher
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.02.2004
• EAN: 9780521520737
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52073-7
• Pagine: 512
• Serie: Boris Pasternak: A Literary Bi; Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography; Boris Pasternak 2 Volume Paperback Set
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Russian, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form