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AN ESSAY IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. (n.d.) Boris Pasternak. ****.
This long essay was written after Pasternak had published “Dr. Zhivago.” It was intended as an introductory piece to a group of his collected poems. Although his novel had made him world-famous, it was not mentioned in this piece. I suppose he had had enough trouble caused by the novel: he was awarded the Nobel Prize as a result of the novel, but had to turn it down because of political considerations. In any event, he did describe his lite ...more
This long essay was written after Pasternak had published “Dr. Zhivago.” It was intended as an introductory piece to a group of his collected poems. Although his novel had made him world-famous, it was not mentioned in this piece. I suppose he had had enough trouble caused by the novel: he was awarded the Nobel Prize as a result of the novel, but had to turn it down because of political considerations. In any event, he did describe his lite ...more
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
was born in Moscow to talented artists: his father a painter and illustrator of Tolstoy's works, his mother a well-known concert pianist. Though his parents were both Jewish, they became Christianized, first as Russian Orthodox and later as Tolstoyan Christians. Pasternak's education began in a German Gymnasium in Moscow and was continued at the University of Moscow. Un
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