“Isn’t there a gulf between prose and poetry? Pasternak does not have this gap. He united poetry and prose as a single art of speech,” said Academician D. S. Likhachev. Stunning metaphors, vivid images and piercing spirituality - these are the distinctive features of Boris Pasternak’s work. His works continue the traditions of Russian and world classics, but at the same time organically combine them with the achievements of the literature of the Silver Age and the avant-garde. In 1958, Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for significant achievements in modern lyric poetry, as well as for continuing the tradition of the great Russian epic novel." B. Pasternak put the best, most intimate poems into the mouth of his beloved hero Yuri Zhivago. This is a novel - about love, about Russia, about Russian nature, about the Russian intelligentsia... This is a novel about our whole life. And it is surprisingly in tune with today.
For compatriots, the award of the prize turned out to be firmly connected with the novel “Doctor Zhivago,” published abroad. The political scandal caused by these events may have cost the writer his life. This edition, in addition to the novel “Doctor Zhivago”, includes the stories “The Apelles Line” (1918), “Childhood of Eyelets” (1922), “Air Routes” (1924), “Safety Certificate” (1931), “People and Positions” (1956), revealing the unique talent of Pasternak the prose writer.
Author: Boris Pasternak
Pages: 736 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 217x148x34 mm
Series: Russian literature. Big books
