Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
751 editions published between 1900 and 2011 in 42 languages and held by 6,188 libraries worldwide
Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.

I remember : sketch for an autobiography by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
35 editions published between 1959 and 1983 in English and French and held by 1,717 libraries worldwide
Author's reminiscences of infancy and youth, impressions of outstanding Russian artists, musicians and writers from the 1890's through the 1930's, and critical comments on Shakespeare's plays.

Selected poems by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
34 editions published between 1958 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,661 libraries worldwide

My sister, life and other poems by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
57 editions published between 1922 and 2012 in 8 languages and held by 1,015 libraries worldwide

The blind beauty; a play by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
11 editions published between 1969 and 1981 in 4 languages and held by 990 libraries worldwide

In the interlude; poems, 1945-1960 by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
12 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 977 libraries worldwide
''Includes the poems of Doctor Zhivago, and the full text of the cycle When the skies clear (Kogda razgulyaetsya)''

The voice of prose by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
87 editions published between 1925 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 884 libraries worldwide
""An international readership will welcome this new collection of Boris Pasternak's continually fascinating family correspondence, which gives us the opportunity to delve deeply into the whole of his thoughts and feelings over a poetic and heroic lifetime, Culminating in Doctor Zhivago and the final virulent Challenge to his genius and his courage." --Robert Conquest, author of Courage of Genius: The Pasternak Affair and The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties" ""This magnificent collection offers us a glimpse into aspects of Pasternak's life that had previously escaped our attention. Faithfully translated and carefully annotated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater, these letters help us better understand the poet's special place in twentieth-century literary and political life."--Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, and close friend of Boris Pasternak's" ""Boris Pasternak is acknowledged as one of the greates poets of the twentieth century. This is a volume of his correspondence with his parents and sisters. The introduction and the translations are exceptionally fine: they bring back to life a brilliant, thoughtful, decent writer and his extraordinary family. Pasternak's persecution in the dark night of stalinism and its aftermath is painfully revealed. The letters are searingly honest and always uplifting. What a Wonderful artist!"--Robert Service, professor of Russian history at Oxford University and author of Stalin: A Biography and Trotsky: A Biography" ""This sensitively translated and informatively annotated collection is a guide-book both to the life and mind of a great writer and to the purgatory that was Europe's twentieth century." --Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European studies at the University of Oxford" "Best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak is most celebrated in Russia as a poet--perhaps the most influential Russian poet of the twentieth century. This and many less well-known facts of Pasternak's life come to light in this selection of correspondence with his family from 1921 to 1960, translated into English for the first time." "Pasternak was born into a prominent Jewish family in Moscow, where his father, Leonid, was a professor at the Moscow School of Painting and his mother, Rosalia, was an acclaimed concert pianist. The highly cultural environment of his parents' home was open to such guests as Rachmaninov, Rilke, and Tolstoy; even after their voluntary exile, members of his family were to play a crucial role in Pasternak's life and work. In the early 1920s he wrote largely autobiographical poetry and novellas, but from the mid-1920s on he moved away from personal themes to focus on the meaning of the revolution. In the 1930s and 1940s, Pasternak's works fell out of favor with the authorities and were not printed; he was obliged to earn a living from translations. Despite the appalling difficulties in communication, his ongoing dialogue with his family became ever more important during the last twenty-five years of his life." "World War II and Stalin's wave of mass persecutions after the war led to many interruptions and prolonged suspensions of the family's correspondence. When Doctor Zhivago brought him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, Pasternak was forced to decline the honor because of official pressure in his home country: the novel was banned in the Soviet Union, and Pasternak was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. An authentic and penetrating account of Russian life in the turbulent era of revolutions and wars, the story of Yuri Zhivago and his great love, Lara, was partly modeled on Pasternak and his companion, Olga Ivinskaya." "At times equalling the drama and intensity of his fictional work, these letters, along with more than fifty illustrations and photos, offer unprecedented insights into the life and work of one of Russia's literary giants."--BOOK JACKET.

Safe conduct : an autobiography, and other writings by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
14 editions published between 1958 and 1959 in English and Undetermined and held by 882 libraries worldwide

Letters to Georgian friends by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
13 editions published in 1968 in English and French and held by 815 libraries worldwide

Sister my life; summer 1917 by Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( Book )
3 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 781 libraries worldwide
Poems in English and Russian.