Letters, summer 1926 : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke / edited by Yegevny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, Konstantin M. Azadovsky ; translated by Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, Jamey Gambrell ; preface by Susan Sontag.

Author
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 [Browse]
Uniform title
Correspondence. Selections. English [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : New York Review Books, c2001.
Description
xx, 378 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

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Series
New York Review Books classics [More in this series]
Summary note
Overview: Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky. The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.
Notes
Previously published in German in 1983 under the title: Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina Zwetajewa, Boris Pasternak.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Preface
  • Foreword to the second edition
  • Note on the English edition
  • Introduction
  • Letters
  • Epilogue
  • Marina Tsvetayeva: Two Essays
  • Notes
  • Index.
ISBN
0940322714 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001001874
OCLC
46703779
RCP
H - S
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