Letters Summer 1926
New York Review of Books, 2001.
New Book.Item #6027
ISBN: 9780940322714
Paperback. 378 pages.
Preface by Susan Sontag. Edited by Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak, and Konstantin M. Azadovsky.
The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. Letters: Summer 1926 takes the reader into the hearts and minds of three of the twentieth century's greatest poets at a moment of maximum emotional and creative pressure.
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