In Russian poetry, Boris Pasternak's My Sister-Life is the equivalent of The Waste Land, Spring, and Harmonium. Written in 1917, the cycle of poems in My Sister-Life concentrates on personal journeys and loves, but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October revolution. Pasternak is an uncompromisingly complex poetic stylist, and his meticulous attention to structure, etymology, and phonetic qualities of words makes his poetry a formidable challenge for the translator.

About Bohdan Boychuk

BORIS PASTERNAK (1890-1960) won the Nobel prize in literature in 1958. He is best known in the West for his novel Doctor Zhivago. MARK RUDMAN is an adjunct professor at NYU. His books include Rider (Wesleyan, 1994), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry for 1994; Realm of Unknowing: Meditations on Art, Suicide, and Other Transformations (Wesleyan, 1995), and The Couple (2001). Rudman also received the Max Hayward Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University for My Sister - Life. BOHDAN BOYCHUK is a prominent Ukranian poet who critiqued and guided Rudman's version of Pasternak.

Additional information

Sku

GOR008465323

ISBN 13

9780810119093

ISBN 10

0810119099

Title

My Sister, Life by Bohdan Boychuk

Author

Bohdan Boychuk

Series

European Poetry Classics

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Year published

20011024

Number of pages

144

Prizes

N/A

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