Donnerstag, 24. November 2016

24.11.2016 - Kleist2 and St Cecilia and Pasternak etc...


dali48 and writing books and photographing parks etc...
 

24.05.2013 - Interpretation of dali48

The monastery is saved, and so Kleist "still existed until the end of the 30-year war" - The archbishop of Treves noted that Cecilia had even done this miracle - the pope confirmed it some years later. Patroness of church music, the organist, organ builder, instrument maker, singer, musician and poet - Memorial day: November, 22...

"Cecilia in a white dress / reminder of the winter time"... (St Cecilia, Orthodox Wiki)

Interpretation of dali48

Doctor Zhivago has been recognized by many as the greatest Russian novel of the 20th century - It is partly autobiography and partly epic novel, a many-layered story starting from the year 1903 - when Iuri Zhivago's mother died...

The story ends with a short episode, occurring "5 or 10 years" after WWII - in which Zhivago's old friends contemplate the fate of their country...

Pasternak's disagreement with Soviet Communism was not political but rather based on his aesthetic views - he couldn't fully accept official literary doctrines developed from a theory of class struggle - but followed his own principles...

Pasternak remained at Peredelkino, a writer's colony - about 20 miles outside of Moscow...

Pasternak died from lung cancer on May 30, 1960... (On B. Pasternak from P.A.C.)


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24.11.2016 - Pasternak3 and Scriabin etc...


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04.11.2009 - Interpretation of dali48 

Boris L. Pasternak, the oldest child of painter Leonid Pasternak and pianist Roza Kaufman, was born in Moscow in 1890...

His parents received constant visits from prominent Moscow writers, artists, and intellectuals, including, the yet unknown R. M. Rilke in 1899, whose writing greatly influenced Pasternak - In addition to his parents, Pasternak's teachers were private tutors - until he entered high school in 1901, where he received a classical education. While he drew well, to the delight of his father, his first love was botany and second music - Inspired by the composer Scriabin, who was a friend of the family, Pasternak devoted 6 years to the study of composition...

He soon turned to philosophy - and although he appeared to be heading toward an academic career, he ultimately gave it up in 1912 to pursue his true calling: poetry - Yet his poetry and prose would always bear the mark of his youthful enthusiasms for music and philosophy - The years preceeding the Revolution were a time of great intellectual and artistic richness in Russia...

It was the age of Kandinsky and Chagall, of Scriabin and Stravinsky... (B. Pasternak, poets.org)


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24.11.2016 - Pasternak3 and "second birth" etc...



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05.11.2009 - Interpretation of dali48 


My Sister Life, published in 1922 immediately won Pasternak a place among the leading writers of the time - In the years before its publication, he worked hard as a translator, producing versions of plays by Kleist and Ben Johnson, poems by Hans Sachs, Goethe, Harwegh, and the German Expressionists...

Pasternak continued to write short poems at this time, but like many of his contemporaries, he felt a sense of tragedy - The peaceful order in which a poet could work with security and confidence had been replaced by a world of destruction and antagonism - Pasternak gradually came to believe that poets and artists had no assured place in society - and could only live as outsiders...

In the late 20th came a new wave of intolerance and terror (see Black Friday and 1929 etc. - d.48)... - A clamp-down occured in all fields - including the literary world...

It was a time of crisis - as Pasternak was well aware. Many writers and artists felt the temptation to commit suicide - Pasternak believed that, for the poet, it was essential to overcome this temptation and the fear of the future - and to continue working when art and even spiritual existence were no longer secure - a theory Pasternak expressed through the metaphor "second birth"... (B. Pasternak, poets.org)


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