Boris Pasternak

The Marsh of Gold (eBook, PDF)

Pasternak's Writings on Inspiration and Creation

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Produktbeschreibung

After one book on a German literature topic, Lou Andreas-Salome, Her Life and Writings, Angela Livingstone (Ph.D. Cambridge University) went on to focus on Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a researcher, Dr. Livingstone has specialized mainly in the work of Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Andrei Platonov. For more than thirty years she taught in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. with which, now retired, she is still closely affiliated, holding the title of Research Professor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618116987
• Artikelnr.: 54255567

Autorenporträt

After one book on a German literature topic, Lou Andreas-Salome, Her Life and Writings, Angela Livingstone (Ph.D. Cambridge University) went on to focus on Russian literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a researcher, Dr. Livingstone has specialized mainly in the work of Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva and Andrei Platonov. For more than thirty years she taught in the Department of Literature at the University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. with which, now retired, she is still closely affiliated, holding the title of Research Professor.

Inhaltsangabe

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). Some Propositions. [Reliquimini]. Ordering a Drama. Heinrich von Kleist. On Asceticism in Culture. [On the Threshold of Inspiration]. Symbolism and Immortality [Synopsis of a lecture]. [End of a Decade]. The Black Goblet. Letters from Tula. Commentary on I (EARLY PROSE).
Some Propositions
(54).
[Reliquimini]
and
Ordering a Dramä (56).
[Reli quimini]
(56).
Ordering a Dramä (58).
Note on names in the early fiction (60).
Heinrich von Kleist. On Asceticism in Culture
(60).
[On the Threshold of Inspira tion]
(63).
Symbolism and Immortality
(63).
[End of a Decade]
(67).
The Black Goblet
(68).
Letters from Tulä (70).
Other early fiction (72). II A SAFE-CONDUCT or
THE PRESERVATION CERTIFICATE
(1928
1931). Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Commentary on II (A SAFE-CONDUCT, OR THE PRESERVATION CERTIFICATE). The political moment (155).
Rilke (156).
Some patterns (157).
Part One, chapter six (158).
Part Two, chapter three (160).
Part Two, chapter seven (161).
Part Two, chapter seventeen (163).
Mayakovsky (165).
The title (167) III FIFTEEN POEMS (1912
1931). February. Spring. Marburg. About These Verses. Definition of Poetry. Definition of Creation. Let
s drop words. Inspiration. Here
s the Beginning. Slanted pictures. Poetry. To Anna Akhmatova. To Marina Tsvetaeva. Lovely woman. Again Chopin. Commentary on III (FIFTEEN POEMS). IV SPEECHES AND ARTICLES 1930s and 1940s. Speech at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (1934). Speech at the International Congress of Writers for the Defense of Culture (1935). Speech at the Third Plenum of the Board of the Union of Soviet Writers (1936). On Shakespeare. A New Collection of Work by Anna Akhmatova. Selected Works by Anna Akhmatova. Notes of a Translator. Paul-Marie Verlaine. Chopin. Remarks on Translations from Shakespeare. Commentary on IV (SPEECHES AND ARTICLES, 1930s and `40s).
Speech at the first all-union congress of Soviet writers
(246).
Speech at the international congress of writers in defense of culture
(248).
Speech at the third plenum of the board of the writers
union
(249).
Articles on Anna Akhmatovä (252).
Articles on Translation and on Shakespeare
(252).
Verlaine
(253).
Chopin
(254). V. An Essay on Pasternak`s Novel DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. 1.
A novel in prose
. 2. Writing poetry. 3. A merging of concepts. 4.
. . . some moving entireness
. Notes. Selective bibliography. Index.