![]() “The Poems of Yury Zhivago” are a part of the poet’s famous novel, Dr. The book would go on to become one of the most influential collections of Russian poetry of the twentieth century. ![]() In the early work My Sister Life, which commemorates the year 1917, Pasternak, then in his late twenties, found his poetic voice. The two poetry collections offered here in translation are chronological and thematic bookends, and they capture Pasternak’s abiding and powerful vision of life: his sense of its beauty and terror, its precariousness for the individual, and its persistence in time-that vitality of being with which he is on familiar and familial terms. ![]() ![]() Boris Pasternak is best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, whereas in Russia he is most celebrated as a poet. ![]()
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