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Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and Other Writings
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,
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Paperback
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256 pages
Published
April 14th 2009
by New Directions
(first published December 1st 1958)
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There is no denying that Pasternak has an amazing gift for words and descriptions. I'd have thought more of this book if I thought more of his story/autobiography. It's great to see such lush descriptions in language, but a bit stuffed and over-seasoned when the thing you are describing isn't really all that interesting. When you show equal aplomb to making a cup of tea as to falling in love with your language it smacks of showmanship.
Aug 24, 2014
Richard
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
readers of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, of Mayakovsky
Recommended to Richard by:
Elaine Feinstein mentioned it in her memoirs
"I am not writing my autobiography. I turn to it when a stranger's so [sic] demands it. Together with its principal character I think that only heroes deserve a real biography, but that the history of a poet is not to be presented in such a form. One would have to collect such a biography from unessentials, which would bear which would bear concessions for compassion and constraint. The poet gives his whole life such a voluntary steep incline that it is impossible for it to exist in the vertical
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Pasternakovljeva poetičnost dolazi do izražaja čak i u njegovoj autobiografiji, gde na fin način raspreda sopstvenu priču, produbljujući samu knjigu slojevitošću.
Tako imamo tri dela knjige, gde je svaki delimično posvećen određenim ljudima koji su u tim periodima života uticali na Pasternaka, tako na početku imamo Skrjabina, koji je i kao mentor i kao persona produbio Pasternakovljevo mišljenje o muzici i shvatanje o istoj, s obzirom da je smatrao da je kao pijanista neuspešan, zbog nepostojanja ...more
Tako imamo tri dela knjige, gde je svaki delimično posvećen određenim ljudima koji su u tim periodima života uticali na Pasternaka, tako na početku imamo Skrjabina, koji je i kao mentor i kao persona produbio Pasternakovljevo mišljenje o muzici i shvatanje o istoj, s obzirom da je smatrao da je kao pijanista neuspešan, zbog nepostojanja ...more
Read this in Dutch, when I was 17. It's an autobiography by the Russian writer. I only remember the lyrical pages about birch forest. Afterwards I felt passionate about taking the Transsiberic train.
Begun on Susan Sontag's recommendation, but I found Pasternak's dense poetic style too slow and difficult to read. It might be very rewarding to persevere with, but as usual I get impatient and start thinking "I could be reading Andre Lorde!"
It's very illuminating about his writing, but I was disappointed because I thought this would be about how he accommodated himself to the Soviet system and his dealings with Stalinism.
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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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