My Sister Life and The Zhivago Poems (Northwestern World Classics) by Pasternak, Boris; Falen, James E. [Translator] - 2012-04-30

Northwestern University Press, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New. Boris Pasternak is best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, whereas in Russia he is most celebrated as a poet. The two poetry collections offered here in translation are chronological and thematic bookends, and they capture Pasternak's abiding and powerful vision of life: his sense of its beauty and terror, its precariousness for the individual, and its persistence in time-that vitality of being with which he is on familiar and familial terms. In the early work My Sister Life, which commemorates the year 1917, Pasternak, then in his late twenties, found his poetic voice. The book would go on to become one of the most influential collections of Russian poetry of the twentieth century. "The Poems of Yury Zhivago" are a part of the poet's famous novel, Dr. Zhivago, whose title might be rendered in English as "Doctor Life." These later lyrics are a kind of summing up that reflect, from the perspective of age and… Read More

Northwestern Univ Pr, 2012. Paperback. New. 176 pages. 7.75x5.25x0.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.