Pasternak: A Biography
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few lives in twentieth-century literature rival the turbulent arc of Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist, and Nobel laureate who dared to create freely beneath the shadow of Soviet tyranny. Ronald Hingley's Pasternak: A Biography chronicles the remarkable life of one of Russia's most towering literary figures, from his early immersion in music and symbolist poetry to the international storm surrounding the publication of Doctor Zhivago, a novel that the Soviet state tried desperately to suppress. With meticulous scholarship and narrative precision, Hingley traces the personal and political forces that shaped Pasternak's genius, painting a vivid portrait of a man who refused to let ideology silence his art. Hingley, a renowned Slavicist and authority on Russian literature, brings formidable academic rigour to bear on a life that was as dramatically contradictory as the era that produced it. Drawing on deep contextual knowledge of Russian writers and Soviet society — a subject he had already illuminated in numerous prior works — he presents Pasternak not merely as a martyr of artistic freedom, but as a complex, flawed, and profoundly human creator. The result is a definitive account that leaves the reader questioning just how much the world nearly lost had Pasternak's voice been permanently silenced.
Author: Ronald Hingley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few lives in twentieth-century literature rival the turbulent arc of Boris Pasternak — poet, novelist, and Nobel laureate who dared to create freely beneath the shadow of Soviet tyranny. Ronald Hingley's Pasternak: A Biography chronicles the remarkable life of one of Russia's most towering literary figures, from his early immersion in music and symbolist poetry to the international storm surrounding the publication of Doctor Zhivago, a novel that the Soviet state tried desperately to suppress. With meticulous scholarship and narrative precision, Hingley traces the personal and political forces that shaped Pasternak's genius, painting a vivid portrait of a man who refused to let ideology silence his art. Hingley, a renowned Slavicist and authority on Russian literature, brings formidable academic rigour to bear on a life that was as dramatically contradictory as the era that produced it. Drawing on deep contextual knowledge of Russian writers and Soviet society — a subject he had already illuminated in numerous prior works — he presents Pasternak not merely as a martyr of artistic freedom, but as a complex, flawed, and profoundly human creator. The result is a definitive account that leaves the reader questioning just how much the world nearly lost had Pasternak's voice been permanently silenced.