Medienkombination, Englisch, 1036 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1580 g
A Literary Biography
Medienkombination, Englisch, 1036 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1580 g
Reihe: Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography
ISBN: 978-0-521-52074-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
The definitive biography of Boris Pasternak, a major twentieth-century Russian author and the creator of Dr Zhivago, is now available for the first time as a two-volume set in paperback. Drawing on archive material (including the Pasternak family archive), eyewitness accounts and a huge range of biographical and background information, Christopher Barnes brings to light many aspects of Pasternak's personality and private life, while illuminating his relations with the Communist régime 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. Barnes traces the origins and development of Dr Zhivago, and explores the personal and political implications of the novel's controversial publication. The biography concludes with a discussion of Pasternak's Nobel Prize award, Final Years and Death, and with a brief account of his posthumous and artistic legacy.
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Volume 1: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Origins and infancy; 2. School and Scriabin; 3. Revolution and Berlin; 4. Youth's impressions, literature and music; 5. Literature, love and creativity; 6. Philosophy in Moscow and Marburg; 7. A literary launch; 8. Wartime in the Urals and Over the Barriers; 9. Quiet Hills and revolution; 10. Civil war activities; 11. Berlin interlude; 12. Malady Sublime and the air of history; 13. The epic age; 14. Breaches, losses, and lyric revival; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Volume 2: 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.
