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Author Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.

Uniform Title Works. Selections. English. 2008
Title The marsh of gold : Pasternak's writings on inspiration and creation / selected, translated, edited, introduced, and provided with commentaries by Angela Livingstone.

Imprint Boston : Academic Studies Press, ©2008.

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 303 pages)
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Series Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history
Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "Major statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process, and the significance of artistic/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether are presented here in direct translation of his own words, and are discussed in the extensive commentaries and introduction. The texts range from 1910 to 1946 and are between two and ninety pages long. There are commentaries on all the texts, as well as a final essay on Pasternak's famous novel, Doctor Zhivago, which is looked at here in the light of what it says on art and inspiration. Although universally acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Pasternak is not yet sufficiently ecognized as the highly original and important thinker that he also was. All his life he thought and wrote about the nature and significance of the experience of inspiration, though he avoided the word "inspiration" where possible, as his own views were not
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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND DATES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY -- NOTE ON PASTERNAK'S CONNECTIONS WITH LITERARY GROUPS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. EARLY PROSE (1910-1919) -- II. A SAFE-CONDUCT or "THE PRESERVATION CERTIFICATE" (1928-1931) -- III. FIFTEEN POEMS (1912-1931) -- IV. SPEECHES AND ARTICLES 1930s and 1940s -- V. An Essay on Pasternak's Novel DOCTOR ZHIVAGO -- NOTES -- SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Subject Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Translations into English.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJg4hCm6CrjDMvfdrbKyBP
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations
Anthologies.
Added Author Livingstone, Angela.
Other Form: Print version: Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Selections. 2008. Marsh of gold. Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008024608
ISBN 1618110071 (electronic bk.)
9781618110077 (electronic bk.)
9781618116987 (electronic bk.)
1618116983 (electronic bk.)
1934843237 (print)
9781934843239 (print)
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DEBBG BV044094534
DEBSZ 421330961
GBVCP 1030561907
GBVCP 803748922
HEBIS 286893835
NZ1 14167350
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