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...Milan, where he teaches literature at the Giuseppe Verdi Music Conservatory, Quasimodo was quite pleased by the honor (value: $42,606) that shocked Italy's literary world. But even in his hour of triumph, he found a moment to demean the merit of Soviet Author Boris (Doctor Zhiuago) Pasternak, reluctant rejecter of last year's Nobel award. Huffed Nobelman Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite in 1957, he turned out an ode titled...
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. The delicate fusion of sound and sense is sometimes ob scured in translation, but the greatness of the poet shows through...
Poems, by Boris Pasternak. The delicate fusion of sound and sense is sometimes obscured in translation, but the greatness of the poet shows richly through...
...poet of so personal a vision was almost certain to be apolitical, but Pasternak was never so swathed in poetic contemplation as not to recognize the hell around him. If his images for it are oblique, they are nonetheless powerful...
...face of terror and degradation, Pasternak sees history as "the passing storm," the title of his latest poem, sent to Translator Kayden in manuscript. In it he voices anew his enduring scorn for the "New Man in the wagon of his Plan," and his hope for humanity's future...