Brief Description
The concluding volume of Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose-writer.
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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 regime 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.
Review Quotes
1. "In this extraordinary book, Barnes does for Boris Pasternak what Joseph Frank, in his brilliant multivolume study, did for Fyodor Dostoevsky--i.e., combine meticulous scholarship with a broad understanding of the times and weave both into an enthralling account of the writer's life and works." Choice
2. "In this extraordinary book, Barnes does for Boris Pasternak what Joseph Frank, in his brilliant multivolume study, did for Fyodor Dostoevsky--i.e., combine meticulous scholarship with a broad understanding of the times and weave both into an enthralling account of the writer's life and works." Choice
3. ..."very informative and scrupulously detailed..." Rimvydas DvSilbajoris, World Literature Today
4. ..."this volume is far more than a standard literary biography. Barnes' accomplishment is an artistic achievement..." Choice
5. "Barnes's biography brings us as close as we are likely to come to this awkward, sometimes mysterious, sometimes transparently foolish man." Sunday Times
6. ..."sure to be vital importance to Pasternak scholars and of tremendous interest to nonspecialists for a long time to come." Karen Evans-Romaine, Slavic Review
7. "Barnes's biography is a exemplary contribution to the scholarship on the twentieth-century Russian poets, and will interest all devotees of modern literature." Slavic and East European Journal
8. "With the completion of volume 2, Christopher Barnes has produced the definitive biography of Boris Pasternak. This is essential reading for all scholars of twentienth-century Russian literature." Rimgaila Salys, Russian Review
9. "After this study, no other biography with the right mixture of intellectual, social and creative skills is likely to appear for a very long time, and few new revelations about Pasternak's life can be expected." Donald Reyfield, Times Literary Supplement
10. "Barnes' accomplishment is an artistic achievement, illuminating Pasternak as the author might himself have enjoyed, relating the ineffable forces of art and history as experienced by Zhivago and Pasternak himself. Highly recommended for all academic collections." Choice
11. .,."very informative and scrupulously detailed..." Rimvydas DvSilbajoris, World Literature Today
12. .,."this volume is far more than a standard literary biography. Barnes' accomplishment is an artistic achievement..." Choice
13. .,."sure to be vital importance to Pasternak scholars and of tremendous interest to nonspecialists for a long time to come." Karen Evans-Romaine, Slavic Review
14. ."..this volume is far more than a standard literary biography. Barnes' accomplishment is an artistic achievement..." Choice
15. RQ"...very informative and scrupulously detailed..." Rimvydas ^DvSilbajoris, World Literature Today
16. ."..sure to be vital importance to Pasternak scholars and of tremendous interest to nonspecialists for a long time to come." Karen Evans-Romaine, Slavic Review
17. ."..very informative and scrupulously detailed..." Rimvydas DEGREESDvSilbajoris, World Literature Today
18. ..".this volume is far more than a standard literary biography. Barnes' accomplishment is an artistic achievement..." Choice
19. ..".very informative and scrupulously detailed..." Rimvydas DEGREESDvSilbajoris, World Literature Today
20. ..".sure to be vital importance to Pasternak scholars and of tremendous interest to nonspecialists for a long time to come." Karen Evans-Romaine, Slavic Review
