Research Catalog

Title

Letters, summer 1926 : Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke / edited by Yegevny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, Konstantin M. Azadovsky ; translated by Margaret Wettlin, Walter Arndt, Jamey Gambrell ; preface by Susan Sontag.

Author

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960

Publication

New York : New York Review Books, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• T︠S︡vetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926
• Pasternak, E. B. (Evgeniĭ Borisovich), 1923-2012.
• Pasternak, E. V.
• Azadovskiĭ, K. (Konstantin)
• Wettlin, Margaret, 1907-2003
• Arndt, Walter W., 1916-
• Gambrell, Jamey
• Arndt, Walter, 1916-2011

Description

xx, 378 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Overview: Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky. The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.

Series Statement

New York Review Books classics

Uniform Title

• Correspondence. Selections. English
• New York Review Books classics

Alternative Title

Correspondence.

Subject

• Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960 > Correspondence
• T͡Svetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941 > Correspondence
• Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926
• 1900-1999
• Authors, German > 20th century > Correspondence
• Authors, Russian > 20th century > Correspondence

Genre/Form

Records and correspondence

Note

• Previously published in German in 1983 under the title: Rainer Maria Rilke, Marina Zwetajewa, Boris Pasternak.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Foreword to the second edition -- Note on the English edition -- Introduction -- Letters -- Epilogue -- Marina Tsvetayeva: Two Essays -- Notes -- Index.

ISBN

0940322714 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001001874

OCLC

• 46703779
• SCSB-10985146

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library