Pasternak: A Critical Study
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Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist, and one of the most enigmatic literary figures of twentieth-century Russia — receives a thorough and illuminating critical examination in Henry Gifford's authoritative study, which stands as one of the most rigorous anglophone assessments of the writer's life and work. Gifford chronicles Pasternak's artistic evolution from his early lyric poetry, shaped by the tumultuous currents of Russian Symbolism and Futurism, through to the sweeping emotional grandeur of Doctor Zhivago, situating each work within the volatile historical and cultural landscape of Soviet Russia. Gifford argues with scholarly precision that Pasternak's genius resided in his ability to transfigure personal suffering and political oppression into verse and prose of transcendent beauty, resisting the coercive demands of Soviet ideology without ever abandoning his profound love for Russian soil and language. Written with the measured elegance characteristic of Cambridge literary scholarship, this study presents close textual readings alongside biographical context, illuminating the philosophical and spiritual dimensions that make Pasternak's work so enduringly powerful — leaving the reader to wonder how one artist could contain such vastness.
Author: Henry Gifford
Format: Hardback
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist, and one of the most enigmatic literary figures of twentieth-century Russia — receives a thorough and illuminating critical examination in Henry Gifford's authoritative study, which stands as one of the most rigorous anglophone assessments of the writer's life and work. Gifford chronicles Pasternak's artistic evolution from his early lyric poetry, shaped by the tumultuous currents of Russian Symbolism and Futurism, through to the sweeping emotional grandeur of Doctor Zhivago, situating each work within the volatile historical and cultural landscape of Soviet Russia. Gifford argues with scholarly precision that Pasternak's genius resided in his ability to transfigure personal suffering and political oppression into verse and prose of transcendent beauty, resisting the coercive demands of Soviet ideology without ever abandoning his profound love for Russian soil and language. Written with the measured elegance characteristic of Cambridge literary scholarship, this study presents close textual readings alongside biographical context, illuminating the philosophical and spiritual dimensions that make Pasternak's work so enduringly powerful — leaving the reader to wonder how one artist could contain such vastness.