Boris Pasternak Books In Order

Novels

  1. The Last Summer (1934)
  2. Doctor Zhivago (1958)

Collections

  1. Collected short prose (1977)
  2. The Voice of Prose (1980)
  3. Zhenia’s Childhood (1982)

Plays

  1. The Blind Beauty (1969)

Non fiction

  1. Safe Conduct (1958)
  2. An Essay in Autobiography (1959)
  3. I Remember (1959)
  4. Letters to Georgian Friends (1968)
  5. The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg (1982)
  6. Letters Summer 1926 (1985)

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Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak’s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award winning translators of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, the English speaking world is indebted. First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authorities Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternak s original resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translators note, this edition of Doctor Zhivago is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time.

Safe Conduct

Experimental in its category, Boris Pasternak’s first autobiography, originally published after the great success of his Dr. Zhivago. The awarding of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature to Boris Pasternak and the subsequent calumny of his fellow citizens in Soviet Russia focused unusual attention on Pasternak’s great novel, Dr. Zhivago, and the small body of his other work. At the time, the latter was only available in any language, as far as is known in New Directions’ Selected Writings of Pasternak, first published in 1949. The 1958 edition was issued with a new introduction by Babette Deutsch under the title of the book’s main component, Pasternak’s autobiography. Written when he was forty, Safe Conduct puzzled many readers in Russia and when it appeared in English, because its isolated sharp impressions and juxtapositions seem to deny chronology, but at least one critic recognized it as ‘the most original of autobiographies, employing a new technique of great important.’ Also included is a group of remarkable short stories, translated by Robert Payne, dealing with the mysteries of life and art, and a selection of the poems that have made Pasternak known, to the few at last, as the ‘outstanding Russian poet of the century.’ these are translated by the British Critic and poet C. M. Bowra, and by Miss Deutsch.

The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg

‘A historical and literary document of the first importance…
a dual self portrait…
by two gifted, courageous people whose story adds a heroic chapter to the tragic annals of our century.’ The New York Times Book Review

Letters Summer 1926

Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. AzadovskyThe summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century’s greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.

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