Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography

by Christopher Barnes

Book Overview

This concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose-writer Boris Pasternak covers the period from 1928 to his death, during which he wrote the famous Dr Zhivago and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Drawing on archive material (including the Pasternak family archive), eyewitness accounts and a huge range of biographical and background information, Barnes brings to light many aspects of Pasternak's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521520738
• ISBN13: 9780521520737
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"