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This authoritative new biography of the Russian poet and prose writer Boris Pasternak is the first part of a two-volume set, covering the period 1890-1928. Drawing on archives and many eyewitness accounts, Barnes' study sheds light on currently unexplored aspects of Pasternak's character and family background, and his artistic, social and historical environment. He combines biographical investigation with detailed textual analysis of translated quotations in verse and prose to reveal the source of Pasternak's extraordinary writings. The book examines a wide range of topics that include his musical enthusiasm and relations with Scriabin, his philosophical studies, his activities in World War I and his response to the 1917 revolutions, and his stance as a liberal artistic intellectual in the 1920s.
"Still, we have the same solitude, the same journeys and searching, and the same favorite turns in the labyrinth of literature and history."—Boris Pasternak to Marina TsvetaevaOne of the most compelling episodes of twentieth-century Russian literature involves the epistolary romance that blossomed between the modernist poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Boris Pasternak in the 1920s. Only weeks after Tsvetaeva emigrated from Russia in 1922, Pasternak discovered her poetry and sent her a letter of praise and admiration. Tsvetaeva's enthusiastic response began a decade-long affair, conducted entirely through letters. This correspondence-written across the widening divide separating Soviet Russia from...
The memoirs of Ariadna Efron provide an intimate and indispensable perspective on the poet Marina Tsvetaeva's life and work, told from the point of view of her daughter.
The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.
In summer and fall 1941, as German armies advanced with shocking speed across the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership embarked on a desperate attempt to safeguard the country's industrial and human resources. Their success helped determine the outcome of the war in Europe. To the Tashkent Station brilliantly reconstructs the evacuation of over sixteen million Soviet civilians in one of the most dramatic episodes of World War II. Rebecca Manley paints a vivid picture of this epic wartime saga: the chaos that erupted in towns large and small as German troops approached, the overcrowded trains that trundled eastward, and the desperate search for sustenance and shelter in Tashkent, one of the mo...
Nur wenige Monate des Jahres 1926 dauerte der Briefwechsel zwischen den drei Dichtern. Dennoch markiert er einen Hohepunkt der personlichen und literarischen Entwicklung Marina Cvetaevas, Rainer Maria Rilkes und Boris Pasternaks - Grund genug, sich intensiv mit ihm auseinander zu setzen. Jedoch fehlt bisher ein Analyseverfahren, das die tiefe emotionale Beziehung und das hohe kunstlerische Niveau des Briefwechsels gleichermassen berucksichtigt. Mit der Psychostilistik entwickelt der Gottinger Slavist Ulrich Hepp eine neue Untersuchungsmethode, die Erkenntnisse der Sozialpsychologie und Psychoanalyse mit einer prazisen Stilanalyse verknupft. Am Beispiel des deutsch-russischen Dreierbriefwechsels setzt er sein Untersuchungsverfahren in die Tat um und ordnet ihn in das fliessende Kontinuum zwischen der Authentizitat historischer Personen und literarischer Fiktion ein. Mit der Psychostilistik schafft Hepp ein geeignetes Instrumentarium, das beiden Komponenten des Briefwechsels zwischen Literaten - als Kunst- und als Beziehungsform - gerecht wird.
Provides a comprehensive introduction to 20th- and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.