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NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS CLASSICS LETTERS SUMMER 1926 BORIS PASTERNAK (1890-1960), the son of a distinguished painter, was born in Moscow and made his reputation as a poet with his first collection, My Sister, Life, written in 1917. Silenced by the Soviet authorities for much of his career, in 1957 Pasternak permitted the publication abroad of his novel Doctor Zhivago. He was forced by his government to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. MARINA TSVETAYEVA (1892-1941), whose father was a classicist and whose mother was a pianist, was born in Moscow and published her first book of poems at seventeen. Tsvetayeva left Russia in 1922 with her two children and her husband, Sergei Efron, who fought against the Red Army in the 1918-1921 Civil War but was later to become a Soviet spy. Often living from hand to mouth, the family remained abroad until 1939. Two years later, after the execution of her husband and the arrest of her daughter, Tsvetayeva committed suicide. Along with numerous lyrics, her works include several extraordinary long poems, among them The Poem of the End, The Poem of the Mountain, and The Ratcatcher. RAINER MARIA RILKE (1875-1926) was born in Prague, the child of a military officer who worked for the railways. His major books include The Book of Hours, inspired by a trip to Russia, the two volumes of New Poems, The Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus. SUSAN SONTAG has written novels, stories, essays, and plays; written and directed films; and worked as a theater director in the United States and Europe. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize. Her most recent book is In America, a novel which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2000. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/letterssummer1920000past_p9a3 ErIEBERS SUMMER 1926 BORIS PASTERNAK MARINA TSVETAYEVA RAINER MARIA RILKE Edited by YEVGENY PASTERNAK YELENA PASTERNAK KONSTANTIN M. AZADOVSKY Translated by MARGARET WETTLIN WALTER ARNDT JAMEY GAMBRELL Preface by SUSAN SONTAG NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS New York This is aNew York Review Book Published by The New York Review of Books 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 Copyright © 2001 by New York Review Books Copyright © 1983 by Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main Preface copyright © 2001 by Susan Sontag Translation copyright © 1985 by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt Epilogue and Appendix translation copyright © 2001 by Jamey Gambrell Unpublished Russian language manuscript copyright © 1985 by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, Konstantin M. Azadovsky, and Mikhail Baltsvinik English translation copyright © 1985 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. [Correspondence. English. Selections] Letters, summer 1926 : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke / translated by Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, Jamey Gambrell ; edited by Yegevny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, Konstantin M. Azadovsky ; preface by Susan Sontag. p. cm. Previously published in German in 1983 under the title: Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina Zwetajewa, Boris Pasternak. ISBN 0-940322-71-4 (alk. paper) 1. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960—Correspondence. 2. TSvetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941—Correspondence. 3. Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926—Correspondence. 4. Authors, German—20th century—Correspondence. 5. Authors, Russian—20th century—Correspondence. I. TSvetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941. II. Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. III. Pasternak, E. B. (Evgenii Borisovich), 1923- IV. Pasternak, E. V. V. Azadovskii, K. (Konstantin) VI. Title. PG3476.P27 Z48 2001 891.71'42—dc21 2001001874 ISBN 0-940322-71-4 Book design by Lizzie Scott Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. ROMS aS (ms Ooms ome yaad www.nybooks.com To the memory of Alexandra Ryabinina oe bape Zu 3 we 1 Ge Gad da 6 he tee EM 16 2T ees “ . wa te ceo zeb et: woe iu u alien a, 8 er er : Aeh s A Seat “ie 950 cee | Gee ~ ct ie a une u 8 ete‘ e la AR den?S e fale! ad i = * cy Sen wwe * Devthes j 7 en e= as ona 7 mi S po ew ren b0 Gia a \ aes © ar Pr ets) = 4 éi_@w ve 5 7 ~*~ oo IB DB’) u Ne 3 Ow = © = = et Wao a => — sr x >» P= re De Te Au -_ > a * > * u np bs ver . - ote u IT 7a = a ad ur, Mh aes | & = > Ors To > 6 4 z “ om =e iS . aoe 4-1. 9 a = En — 7 » > = 7} as = CONTENTS Preface : ix Foreword to the Second Edition XV A Note on the English Edition NODK Introduction - 3 Letters - 45 Epilogue - 261 Marina Tsvetayeva: Two Essays >19 Notes .- 361 Index : 369 Hel RN: “u ah ar sis a Garo nn & Dice were wats it u = POE tr vi riage nat san tet oa | . a avexyiaedy Du 20 j pee i 3 if
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