Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010

04.11.2016 - Pasternak2 and Hope etc...



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05.01.2010 - Interpretation by dali48

Unlike Mandelstam, Pasternak was capable of hope - While in the 1930s a purely apolitical position was seen as a dangerous manifestation of independence - in poems and speeches Pasternak continually defended the autonomy of the artist! - He made a clear statement of his apolitical position in a proposed  second edition of Safe Conduct, but it was suppressed! - The authorities were still willing to publish his poems, but not his prose... - finally, after 2 controversial speeches in a public forum and the publication of a cycle of poems called "The Artist" - the head of the Writer's Union referred to him as a traitor in a speech to the Congress of the Soviets - At that point onward, Pasternak was no longer called upon to play an active part in public affairs - Yet he was still recognized by the public as one of the outstanding poets of the age! - Until 1958 he escaped the persecution which had been the lot of so many Russian writers - and in 1934 he was even consulted by Stalin about the poetic gifts of Mandelstam - who had just been arrested... - In June 1941, Hitler's troops marched into Russia - Pasternak worked hard during this time, writing poems on war subjects - and translating Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, and Henry IV. In the aftermath of victory Pasternak felt the urge to write a large prose work, one both rich and popular, which would contain his abiding thoughts about life - the beauty which gives light to everyday existence, art and biography, Pushkin, Tolstoy, and the Bible... (B. Pasternak, poets.org)


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