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    Letters: Summer 1926

    Author Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke
    Preface by Susan Sontag
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    $22.95 US
    New York Review Books | NYRB Classics
    4.98"W x 7.96"H x 0.96"D   | 14 oz | 28 per carton
    On sale Oct 31, 2001 | 408 Pages | 9780940322714
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    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.
    Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. View titles by Boris Pasternak
    Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941) was a Russian poet and memoirist. View titles by Marina Tsvetayeva
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) achieved fame with his Duino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet. View titles by Rainer Maria Rilke

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    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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    Boris Pasternak (1890-1960), the poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. View titles by Boris Pasternak
    Marina Tsvetayeva (1892-1941) was a Russian poet and memoirist. View titles by Marina Tsvetayeva
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) achieved fame with his Duino Elegies and Letters to a Young Poet. View titles by Rainer Maria Rilke

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