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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.

Contributor:

Livingstone, Angela.

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.

Standardized Title:

Selections. English. 2008

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960--Translations into English.

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich.

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960--Criticism and interpretation.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Anthologies.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 303 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 his own words (in translation) 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 recognized 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 avoiding the word "inspiration" where possible as his own views were not the conventional ones. The author's purpose is (a) to make this philosophical aspect of his work better known, and (b) to communicate to readers who cannot read Russian the pleasure and interest of an "inspired" life as Pasternak experienced it.

Contents:

Front matter

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 1930's and 1940's

V. An Essay on Pasternak's Novel DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

NOTES

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781618116987

1618116983

9781618111395

1618111396

9781618110077

1618110071

OCLC:

1135574634