Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
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Description
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к) was a Russian poet, novelist, composer, and literary translator.
Books
Sochinenii͡a v dvukh tomakh
Доктор Живаго
This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller. Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.
The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, 1910-1954
Poems
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
9-10th grade
I Remember
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.
