Lydia Pasternak Slater: Writings 1918-1989

Lyrical, dramatic and light verse in Russian, German and English, critical articles, and translations of Boris Pasternak's poems.

This anthology presents the writings of Lydia Pasternak Slater (19021989), sister of Boris Pasternak. Lydia Pasternak Slater lived successively in Russia, Germany and England, and wrote in all three languages. Her poetry is largely lyrical, occasionally humorous and always original and striking. She also wrote a number of short stories and later in life became widely known as a translator of Boris Pasternak's poems. The anthology includes her critical articles about her brother's work and about the art of translation.

Autorentext

Anna Sergeeva-Klyatis is a Lecturer at the Department of Literary and Artistic Criticism and Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University. Fedor Poljakov is Professor of Russian literature at the University of Vienna. Nicolas Pasternak Slater is a retired physician and translator of the work of Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy.

Klappentext

This anthology presents the writings of Lydia Pasternak Slater (1902 1989), sister of Boris Pasternak. Lydia Pasternak Slater lived successively in Russia, Germany and England, and wrote in all three languages. Her poetry is largely lyrical, occasionally humorous and always original and striking. She also wrote a number of short stories and later in life became widely known as a translator of Boris Pasternak s poems. The anthology includes her critical articles about her brother s work and about the art of translation.

Inhalt
Contents: Russian poems German poems English poems Short stories in 3 languages Translations of Boris Pasternak's poems.