From Gorky to Pasternak

This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian letters. Taken as a group they are a microcosm of Russian literature in the twentieth century, an age of rapid and extreme change.

Inhalt

1. Maxim Gorky 2. Alexander Blok 3. Vladimir Mayakovsky 4. Leonid Leonov 5. Mikhail Sholokhov 6. Boris Pasternak and the Poems of Yurii Zhivago