My Sister -- Life - Softcover

Pasternak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810110903 ISBN 13: 9780810110908

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1993

Synopsis

In Russian poetry, Boris Pasternak's ""My Sister-Life"" is the equivalent of ""The Waste Land"", ""Spring"", and ""Harmonium"". Written in 1917, the cycle of poems in ""My Sister-Life"" concentrates on personal journeys and loves, but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October revolution. Pasternak is an uncompromisingly complex poetic stylist, and his meticulous attention to structure, etymology, and phonetic qualities of words makes his poetry a formidable challenge for the translator.

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About the Author

BORIS PASTERNAK (1890-1960) won the Nobel prize in literature in 1958. He is best known in the West for his novel Doctor Zhivago. MARK RUDMAN is an adjunct professor at NYU. His books include Rider (Wesleyan, 1994), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1994; Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations (Wesleyan, 1995), and The Couple (2001). Rudman also received the Max Hayward Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University for My Sister - Life. BOHDAN BOYCHUK is a prominent Ukranian poet who critiqued and guided Rudman's version of Pasternak.

Synopsis

A classic of 20th-century Russian poetry, well served in this translation by Mark Rudman (with Bohdan Boychuk), which was originally published by Ardis in 1983. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0810110903
• ISBN 13: 9780810110908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116