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TWENTIETH CENTURY VIEWS The aim of this series is to present the best in con temporary critical opinion on major authors, pro viding a twentieth century perspective on their changing status in an era of profound revaluation. Maynard Mack, Series Editor Yale University PASTERNAK PASTERNAK A COLLECTION OF CRITICAL ESSAYS Edited by Victor Erlich Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Pasternak. (Twentieth century views) (A Spectrum Book). Bibliography: p. 1. Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. — Criticism and interpretation —Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Erlich, Victor (date). PG3476.P27Z747 891.7’1’42 77-21223 ISBN 0-13-652834-1 ISBN 0-13-652826-0 pbk. ©1978 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. A SPECTRUM BOOK. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permis sion in writing from the publisher. Printed in the United States of America. 10 987654321 Prentice-Hall International, Inc. (London) Prentice-Hall of Australia Pty. Limited (Sydney) Prentice-Hall of Canada, Ltd. (Toronto) Prentice-Hall of India Private Limited (New Delhi) Prentice-Hall of Japan, Inc. (Tokyo) Prentice-Hall of Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) Whitehall Books Limited (Wellington, New Zealand) Acknowledgments Quotations from Modern Russian Poetry by Vladimir Markov and Mer rill Spacks are used by kind permission of The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. and MacGibbon and K,ee Limited/ Granada Publishing Limited. Copyright© 1966, 1967 by MacGibbon and Kee Limited. Quotations from In the Interlude: Poems 1945-1960 by Boris Pasternak, translated by Henry Kamen, are used by kind permission of A. D. Peters & Co., Ltd. Quotations from The Poetry of Boris Pasternak, translated by George Reavey, are used by kind permission of G. P. Putnam’s Sons. © 1959 G. P. Putnam’s Sons. The quotation from “Hamlet” by Boris Pasternak from The Penguin Book of Russian Verse, edited and translated by Dimitri Obolensky (1965), pp. 335-36, is used by kind permission of Penguin Books Ltd. Copyright © Dimitri Obolensky, 1962, 1965. Quotations from Boris Pasternak, Poems, 2nd ed., and for scattered quotes of poetry from “The Poems of Doctor Zhivago,” by Dimitri Obolen sky, are used by kind permission of the Estate of Eugene M. Kayden. Mr. Kayden translated these works. Quotations from Dale L. Plank, Pasternak’s Lyric are used by kind per mission of Mouton Publishers, The Hague. Quotations from the Pantheon Books version of Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, are used by kind permission of the publisher. Copyright © 1958 by Pantheon Books, Inc. Pantheon is a division of Random House, Inc. Quotations from Boris Pasternak, Poems 1955-1959, translated by Michael Harari, are used by kind permission of Collins Publishers. Quotations from the Russian edition of Boris Pasternak, Doktor Zhivago (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1958) are used by kind permission of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Milan. Copyright © Giangiacomo Feltrinelli 1961. vii viii Acknowledgments Boris Pasternak’s “Marburg,” translated by Yakov Hornstein, is used by kind permission of Mr. Hornstein. The quotation from “If Only When I Made My Debut,” translated by Babette Deutsch and Maurice Bowra, from Boris Pasternak’s Safe Conduct is reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Copyright 1949 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Contents Introduction: Categories of Passion by Victor Erlich 1 Language and Reality in the Early Pasternak by Yury Lotman 21 Words and Things in Pasternak by Yury Tynyanov 32 The Energy of Pasternak by Isaiah Berlin 39 The Metonymous Hero or the Beginnings of Pasternak the Novelist by Michel Aucouturier 43 Life as Ecstasy and Sacrifice: Two Poems by Boris Pasternak by Nils Ake Nilsson 51 Pasternak’s Poetry by A ndrey Sinyavsky 68 Boris Pasternak by Fyodor Stepun HO Doctor Zhivago: As from a Lost Culture by Stuart Hampshire 126 A Testimony and a Challenge: Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago by Victor Erlich 131 Doctor Zhivago: Liebestod of the Russian Intelligentsia by Robert Louis Jackson 137 The Poems of Doctor Zhivago by Dimitri Obolensky 151 Pasternak’s Last Poetry by A ngela Livingstone 166 The End of the Journey by Vladimir Weidle ix
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