POEMS (194 pp.)—Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden—University of Michigan ($3.95). Translation is the customs office of poetry. Nothing is more difficult to smuggle into another language ...

IN A modest house not far from Moscow lives a gray-haired poet of sixty-eight by the name of Boris Pasternak. Visitors are struck by the serenity of his face, distinguished by high cheekbones and deep ...

THE LAST SUMMER (159 pp.)—Boris Pasternak, translated by George Reavey —Avon (paperbound, 50¢). “A new novel by Nobel Prize Winner Pasternak,” trumpeted the gaily colored cover. Actually, the book was ...

Attending the Bolshoi Theatre on Sverdlov Square in Moscow is always an exciting prospect. Once the Great Imperial Theatre, built in 1824 with a statue of Phoebus in his sun chariot above its ionic ...

“I accepted the award of the Nobel Prize as a literary distinction. I rejoiced . . . But I was wrong.” White-haired Russian Poet-Novelist Boris Pasternak wrote these abject words in Pravda last week, ...

The most remarkable Russian novel of the 20th century has been translated into 18 languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the ...

Under a white birch tree near a brook sat a young man writing poetry. Occasionally, when the words on paper somehow refused to echo the music in his mind, he wept. The place was Molodi, a village 38 ...

In the bitterness of recent years, when he was reviled by his stony-faced government and forbidden under pain of exile to accept the Nobel Prize awarded him for his poems and for Doctor Zhivago, Boris ...

This is the fifth in a series about a journey, by train and bicycle, across Russia to Crimea shortly before the war began. On my last full day in Moscow I planned to spend the morning with Alexander ...

“The riddle of life, the riddle of death, the enchantment of genius, of unadorned beauty-these things were ours,” wept the beautiful Lara over the body of her lover, Dr. Zhivago. “But the small ...

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