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| Name: |
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak | | Birth Date: |
February 10, 1890 | | Death Date: |
May 30, 1960 | | Place of Birth: |
Moscow, Russia | | Place of Death: |
Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | | Nationality: |
Russian | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet |
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 Biography of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
1,099 words, approx. 4 pages
 The Russian poet, novelist, and translator Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890-1960) was the foremost writer of the Soviet period. He constantly endeavored to shape the means of artistic expression to the ends of his integrity and concern for mankind.... summary from source:
 Biography of Boris (Leonidovich) Pasternak
14,415 words, approx. 48 pages
 Boris Pasternak ranks among the greatest writers of twentieth-century Russia. To native speakers of Russian he is perhaps best known and loved for his verse; nonnative speakers are rarely familiar with Pasternak's poetry because of the difficulties in... 
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 Boris Pasternak Quotes
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak [Борис Леонидович Пастернак] ( 10 February 1890 – 30 May 1960 ) Russian poet and writer famous for his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957). Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Nobel Prize 1.2 Doctor Zhivago (1957) 2...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich
625 words, approx. 2 pages(born Feb. 10 [Jan. 29, Old Style], 1890, Moscow, Russia—died May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, near Moscow) Russian poet whose novel Doctor Zhivago helped win him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union... summary from source:
Pasternak, Boris (Leonidovich)
133 words, approx. 1 pages(born Feb. 10, 1890, Moscow, Russia—died May 30, 1960, Peredelkino, near Moscow) Russian poet and prose writer. He studied music and philosophy and after the Russian Revolution of 1917 worked in the library of the Soviet commissariat of... summary from source:
 Boris Pasternak Information
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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к) (February 10 [O.S. January 29] 1890 – May 30, 1960) was a Nobel Prize-winning Russian poet and writer, in the West best known for his epic novel Doctor...
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 The Independent - London Boris Pasternak
03/18/1995: 885 words, approx. 3 pages "Survival without renunciation of any part of one's moral world - apart from powerful and direct interventions by fortune - was conceded to a very few superior individuals, made of the stuff of martyrs and saints," wrote Primo Levi of Auschwitz. Stalinist Russia was... summary from source:
Canadian Slavonic Papers Understanding Boris Pasternak
12/01/2001: 561 words, approx. 2 pages Larissa Rudova. Understanding Boris Pasternak. Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. xv, 211 pp. Chronology. Notes. Select Bibliography. General Index. Index of Works. $29.95, cloth. As part of the Understanding Modern European and Latin American... summary from source:
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Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Elliott Mossman
8,739 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following excerpt, Mossman outlines Pasternak's "prose vision, " discussing thematic and stylistic aspects of Pasternak's short fiction. Mossman notes in particular Pasternak's focus on history, the individual, causality, estrangement, and the relationship between art and reality.
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Critical Essay by Roman Jakobson
6,807 words, approx. 23 pages
In the essay below, which was originally published in German in 1935, Jakobson delineates how Pasternak's poetic disposition affected his prose works, lending insight into Pasternak's short fiction. Jakobson concludes, "Pasternak's prose is the characteristic prose of a poet in a great age of poetry."
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Critical Essay by Henry Gifford
5,860 words, approx. 20 pages
In the excerpt below, in which he discusses stylistic and thematic aspects of Pasternak's short fiction, Gifford claims there is a strong thematic relationship between Pasternak's verse and fiction, and that this fiction is often characterized by a focus on artistic and childlike sensibilities.
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