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Boris Pasternak (Hardcover, Reprint 2013 ed.): Lazar Fleishman Boris Pasternak (Hardcover, Reprint 2013 ed.)
Lazar Fleishman
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R1,561 R1,413 Discovery Miles 14 130 Save R148 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Boris Pasternak has generally been regarded as an artist who was indifferent to the literary and political storms of his time. Lazar Fleishman gives the great writer's life a new perspective. He shows that Pasternak's entire literary career should be regarded as a complex and passionate response to constant changes in Russian cultural and social life.

Drawing on a vast array of sources, Fleishman's chronicle encompasses both the familiar and the little-known aspects of the poet's life and work. He describes the formative role played by Pasternak's father, a prominent Russian painter, and the intellectual endeavors of the young man before his literary debut. He explores the intricate relations of Pasternak to the main movements of literary modernism, including symbolism and futurism.

Particularly informative are the chapters devoted to the postrevolutionary years. Fleishman untangles the poet's contacts with leading political figures (Stalin, Trotsky, Bukharin) and fellow writers (Gorky, Mayakovsky, Tsvetaeva, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam), and examines his changes in fortune during the purges and World War II. He shows how Pasternak was perceived by Western contemporaries and how significant their moral support was for him during the darkest years of Stalin's regime. He provides explanations for the Christian themes in Pasternak's later work, as well as the poet's peculiar view of Jewry. Finally, Fleishman recreates the vicissitudes of the publication of "Doctor Zhivago" and the ensuing Nobel Prize scandal in 1958. A fascinating description of the writer's career in broad context, this book will be welcomed by everyone interested in Pasternak and in twentieth-century literature.

War, Revolution, and Governance - The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover): Lazar Fleishman, Amir Weiner War, Revolution, and Governance - The Baltic Countries in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
Lazar Fleishman, Amir Weiner
R2,578 Discovery Miles 25 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 20th century in the Baltic region had it all. The turbulent century did not spare the small territory and its population, which was visited by practically every calamity the modern era had to offer. At westward edge of the Russian Empire, the region was subjected to the harsh Russification drive of the late imperial era. With diverse religions and nationalities and its geographic buffer between the Empire and the German Reich, it was also the crucible of key battles during and mass refugee crises following World War I. In the interwar period, the rise of the independent Baltic States precipitated myriad political experiments and population politics together with constant maneuvering to preserve their fragile and ultimately short-lived sovereignty. World War II ushered in a period of unprecedented extremes with waves of brutal occupations, deportations, the Holocaust, the subjection of the territory to the communist experiment, and ultimately, the decimation of state sovereignty for the next four decades. The almost unavoidable outcome of this course of events has been the focus on the region from the point of view of the large powers that sought to dominate and shape it. The rather limited number of foreign scholars who command Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian, fortified this orientation in the writing of the history of the region. The present volume seeks to shift the attention to the local point of view through the writing of Baltic scholars. By no means a comprehensive expose, the essays nevertheless explore key junctures in the history of the three Baltic countries as viewed "from within," both then and now.

Unacknowledged Legislators - Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel (English, Russian,... Unacknowledged Legislators - Studies in Russian Literary History and Poetics in Honor of Michael Wachtel (English, Russian, Hardcover, New edition)
Lazar Fleishman, David M. Bethea, Ilya Vinitsky
R3,585 Discovery Miles 35 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The 50th volume of Stanford Slavic Studies brings together prominent international specialists in the study of Russian literary history. 42 contributors are affiliated with leading academic centers in the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Russia, and Israel. Their essays propose new approaches and introduce hitherto unknown materials that address themes central to literary scholarship, such as theory of Russian verse, history of Russian Formalism, Russian-German and Russian-Italian cultural ties. The chapters of this book cover such towering figures of modern Russian letters as Pushkin, Gogol, Akhmatova, Mandelshtam, Nabokov, and Pasternak. The volume is dedicated to the distinguished authority in Russian poetry and comparative literary studies, Professor of Princeton University Michael Wachtel.

Across Borders: Essays in 20th Century Russian Literature and Russian-Jewish Cultural Contacts. In Honor of Vladimir Khazan... Across Borders: Essays in 20th Century Russian Literature and Russian-Jewish Cultural Contacts. In Honor of Vladimir Khazan (English, German, Russian, Hardcover, New edition)
Lazar Fleishman, Fedor B Poljakov
R2,941 Discovery Miles 29 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volume consists of 27 essays dedicated to Vladimir Khazan, the leading specialist in Russian-Jewish relationship and in the study of 20th century Russian literature. The essays deal with Blok, Bely, Akhmatova, Babel, Jabotinsky, Remizov, and Nabokov. The volume introduces unknown documents and facts that elucidate new aspects of Polish-Russian, German-Russian, Russian-Baltic, and Russian-French literary contacts, reveal unknown details about post-Stalinist Soviet "samizdat" and the story of publication of Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago". Among the contributors are such distinguished scholars as Konstantin Azadovsky, Oleg Budnitskii, Stefano Garzonio, Mirja Lecke, Leonid Livak, Magnus Ljunggren, Paolo Mancosu, Piotr Mitzner, Boris Ravdin, and Roman Timenchik

: Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen - A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov (English,... : Literarische und kulturelle Beziehungen zwischen Russland und dem Westen - A Festschrift for Fedor B. Poljakov (English, German, Russian, Hardcover, New edition)
Lazar Fleishman, Stefan Michael Newerkla, Michael Wachtel
R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is dedicated to Fedor B. Poljakov, Professor of the University of Vienna, a distinguished specialist in the history of Russian culture and Germano-Slavic cultural relations. It brings together scholars from leading universities in the United States, Europe and the Russian Federation. Thirty-seven essays discuss a broad array of themes ranging from early-modern Muscovy and Slavia Orthodoxa to Russia's contacts with the West from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries to modernist literature to early Soviet poetry and post-revolutionary emigration. The articles present unknown archival documents and offer new perspectives on the study of Russian literature in a comparative context.

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