The last summer / Boris Pasternak ; translated by George Reavey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.

Contributor:

Reavey, George, 1907-1976.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Peter Owen modern classics

Standardized Title:

Povest'. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Russia--Social life and customs--1533-1917--Fiction.

Russia.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

92 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Peter Owen, 2000.

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

"The Last Summer" is set in Russia during the winter of 1916, when the book's central character, Serezha, pays a visit to his married sister. Tired after the long journey, he falls into a restless sleep and half-remembers, half-dreams the incidents of the last summer of peace before the First World War, "when life appeared to pay heed to individuals." As tutor in a wealthy, unsettled Moscow household, he focuses his intense romanticism on Mrs Arild, the employer's paid companion, while spending his nights with the prostitute Sashka and others. In this evocation of Russia immediately prior to the Revolution, the characters are subtly etched against their social backgrounds, and Pasternak imbues the commonplace with his own intense and poetic vision.

Notes:

This translation originally published: P. Owen, 1959.

Other Format:

Online version: Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Povest'. English. Last summer.

ISBN:

0720610990

9780720610994

OCLC:

44604443