Product Description

In this selected volume of Pasternak's poetry Andrei Navrozov transports the English-language reader into the Russian poet's mysterious lyric universe.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171007 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-30
• Original language: Russian
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 120 pages

Evening Standard
Remarkably, Andrei Navrozov's translations catch something of the dazzling and discordant brilliance of the originals

Josephine Pasternak, sister of Boris Pasternak
Andrei Navrozov is an exception among the present-day young poets. He is a true lyric poet

About the Author
Boris Pasternak (1890 1960) studied in Moscow and Germany before the turmoil of the First World War and the Russian Revolution forced him to work within the Soviet state. He first made his name as a poet but later as a translator and prose writer. His novel The Last Summer was published in 1934, to be followed in 1958 by Dr Zhivago. He was offered the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958 but declined it.

Customer Reviews

The Holy Fool Trumps
I could sense and feel something rich, complex, splendid and invigorating in these poems even as I confess that I understood not a jot of this translation. It sounded wonderful and refreshingly sonorous nonetheless. I was able to track down other translations (at northwestern.edu for instance) that were a tad more prosaic and much more readable. Oh well I should have learnt russian ...

Stalin is said to have struck Pasternak's name off a NKVD list telling them to "leave that holy fool alone". Thank goodness!