Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

"The poems in this volume represent all Pasternak's later work, and may therefore be reckoned the successor to In early trains, a small collection which the poet published in 1942. The present collection is divided into two sections, the first of which includes the poems of Doctor Zhivago, previously published as a part of the novel; and the second of which includes the full text of the cycle When the skies clear (Kogda razgulyaetsya)."--Page xiii....

Poems in English and Russian. In My Sister--Life. Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolution.

Author's reminiscences of infancy and youth, impressions of outstanding Russian artists, musicians and writers from the 1890's through the 1930's, and critical comments on Shakespeare's plays.

"Traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet he finds himself in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse. Zhivago becomes torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the Bolshevik revolution, but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism." -- Epic love...