Boris Pasternak Volume 2, 1928}}}1960 A Literary Biography [Hardcover]

The concluding volume of Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose-writer.This is the long-awaited concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and poet and prose-writer Boris Pasternak. Barnes discusses Pasternak's relations with the Communist régime and the literary establishment, his original writing, and the controversies surrounding the publication of Dr Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize.'Christopher Barnes's biography ... will certainly become the standard and indispensable guide for students not only of the poet but of his age and literary milieu.' John Bayley.This is the long-awaited concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and poet and prose-writer Boris Pasternak. Barnes discusses Pasternak's relations with the Communist régime and the literary establishment, his original writing, and the controversies surrounding the publication of Dr Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize.'Christopher Barnes's biography ... will certainly become the standard and indispensable guide for students not only of the poet but of his age and literary milieu.' John Bayley.This is the long-awaited concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose writer, Boris Pasternak. Barnes discusses Pasternak's relations with the Communist régime and the literary establishment, his original writing, and the controversies surrounding the publication of Dr. Zhivago and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.1. The crisis of the lyric; 2. Time of plague; 3. New love and second birth; 4. A prisoner of the time; 5. Congress, consensus and confrontation; 6. Peredelkino and the purges; 7. Prose, obscurity and Hamlet; 8. Word War and evacuation; 9. Christopol translation; 10. War and peace in Moscow; 11. 'From immortality's archive' - birth of a novel; 12. Faustian pursuits in life and letters; 13. The darkness before dawl$