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Boris and Yurii have a great deal in common, but they probably do not discuss it, even though, in the Writers' House on Moscow's Lavrushinsky Lane, they have apartments on the same floor. Boris Pasternak has been in serious trouble because of his Nobel Prize and the deep, Christian doubts he raised about Marxism in Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Dec. 15, 1958). Yurii Olesha's own run-in with the commissars goes back about three decades. The big difference between them is that Pasternak seems unrepentant, while Olesha's repentance has led him so far along...
...spectacle of millionaire movie actors lined up with extras against the men who once ran the town suggested to Hollywood oldtimers the end of an era. In fact, that era had ended long ago. "I'm not going to start another picture," said M-G-M Producer Joe Pasternak, "until the actors decide to give the business back to the bosses." But there are virtually no bosses around to take it back...
POEMS, by Boris Pasfernak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. No poet has ever with entire success hurdled the barrier of translation, yet it is plain in this first comprehensive Pasternak collection that the creative push is there, the unique vision that separates the poet from the poetaster...
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Though the language curtain sometimes reduces the poet's lyric song to schoolboy singsong, this translation permits more than a glint of Pasternak's genius to filter through...
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Despite inevitable translation difficulties, the verse of Dr. Zhivago's author suggests genius...