The Last Summer
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the trembling backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, The Last Summer is a luminous novella that chronicles a few charged weeks in the life of Serezha, a young tutor employed by a wealthy Moscow family, whose intense inner world collides with the desires, secrets, and social tensions swirling around him. Pasternak renders this brief, electric season — part erotic awakening, part political tremor — with the concentrated force of a prose poem, tracing Serezha's entanglements with the women in the household and his dawning awareness of a world on the cusp of irreversible change. Written with the same lyrical intensity that would later define Doctor Zhivago, this early work illustrates Pasternak's extraordinary gift for fusing private emotion with historical upheaval, transforming the mundane rhythms of a single summer into a meditation on youth, longing, and the fragility of a civilisation about to shatter. His prose moves in close, impressionistic strokes — sensory, oblique, and deeply musical — demanding an attentive reader who will be rewarded with one of the twentieth century's most quietly devastating portraits of a Russia that no longer exists.
Author: Boris Pasternak
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the trembling backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, The Last Summer is a luminous novella that chronicles a few charged weeks in the life of Serezha, a young tutor employed by a wealthy Moscow family, whose intense inner world collides with the desires, secrets, and social tensions swirling around him. Pasternak renders this brief, electric season — part erotic awakening, part political tremor — with the concentrated force of a prose poem, tracing Serezha's entanglements with the women in the household and his dawning awareness of a world on the cusp of irreversible change. Written with the same lyrical intensity that would later define Doctor Zhivago, this early work illustrates Pasternak's extraordinary gift for fusing private emotion with historical upheaval, transforming the mundane rhythms of a single summer into a meditation on youth, longing, and the fragility of a civilisation about to shatter. His prose moves in close, impressionistic strokes — sensory, oblique, and deeply musical — demanding an attentive reader who will be rewarded with one of the twentieth century's most quietly devastating portraits of a Russia that no longer exists.