{"product_id":"the-marsh-of-gold-pasternaks-writings-on-inspiration-and-creation-9781934843239","title":"The Marsh of Gold: Pasternak's Writings on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMajor statements by the celebrated Russian poet Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) about poetry, inspiration, the creative process and the significance of artistic\/literary creativity in his own life as well as in human life altogether, are presented here in his own words (in translation) and are discussed in the extensive Commentaries and Introduction. The texts range from 1910 to 1946 and are between two and ninety pages long. There are Commentaries on all the texts, as well as a final Essay on Pasternak's famous novel \"Doctor Zhivago\", which is looked at here in the light of what it says on art and inspiration.Although universally acknowledged as one of the great writers of the twentieth century, Pasternak is not yet sufficiently recognised as the highly original and important thinker that he also was. All his life he thought and wrote about the nature and significance of the experience of inspiration, though avoiding the word 'inspiration' where possible as his own views were not the conventional ones. My book's purpose is (a) to make this - philosophical - aspect of his work better known, and (b) to communicate to readers without Russian the pleasure and interest of an 'inspired' life as Pasternak experienced it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Lucid and full commentaries are interspersed between the pieces, making this an indispensable volume for any student of Pasternak or early twentieth-century Russia.\" -- Sasha Dugdale * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Marsh of Gold. Pasternak A|s Writings on Inspiration and CreationPreface\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Acknowledgments\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Note on transliteration and dates \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Abbreviations\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Chronology\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Note on literary groups\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Introduction\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00I  Early Prose\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Some Propositions (1918)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00[Reliquimini]A y (1910)   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Ordering a Drama (1910)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Heinrich von Kleist. On Asceticism in Culture. (1911)\t\t\t\t\t00[On the Threshold of Inspiration] (1912)  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Symbolism and Immortality [a lecture-synopsis] (1913)\t\t\t\t\t00[End of a Decade] (1913)   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00The Black Goblet (1916)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Letters from Tula (1918)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Commentary on I (Early Prose)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Propositions. A- [Reliquimini]. A- Ordering a Drama. A- Notes on names in the early fiction. A- Kleist. A- [On the Threshold]. A- Symbolism and Immortality. A- [End of a Decade]. A- Black Goblet. A- Letters from Tula. A- Other early fiction.II  A Safe-Conduct (or: The Preservation Certificate) (1929-31)\t\t\t\t00Part One\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Part Two\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Part Three\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Commentary on II (A Safe-Conduct)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00The political moment. A-  Rilke. A-  Some patterns. A-  Part One chapter six.  Part Two chapter three. A-  Part Two chapter seven. A-  Part Two chapter seventeen. A-  Mayakovsky. A-  The Title.III  Fifteen Poems\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00February (1912)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Spring (1914)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Marburg (1916)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00About These Verses (1917)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Definition of Poetry (1917)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Definition of Creation (1917)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Let A|s Drop Words . . (1917)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Inspiration (1921)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Here A|s the Beginning . . (1921)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Slanted Pictures . . (1922)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Poetry (1922)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00To Anna Akhmatova (1929)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00To Marina Tsvetaeva (1929)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Lovely Woman . . (1931)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Again Chopin . . (1931)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Commentary on III (Fifteen Poems)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00IV Speeches and Articles, 1930s and  A|40s\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Speech at the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers (1934)\t\t\t\t00Speech at the International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture (1935)\t\t00Speech at the Third Plenum of the Board of the Union of Soviet Writers (1936)\t\t00On Shakespeare (1942)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00A New Collection of Work by Anna Akhmatova (1943)\t\t\t\t\t00Selected Works by Anna Akhmatova (1943)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Notes of a Translator (1944)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Paul-Marie Verlaine (1944)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Chopin (1945)\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Remarks on Translations from Shakespeare (1946)\t\t\t\t\t\t00Commentary on IV (Speeches and Articles, 1930s and  A|40s)\t\t\t\t00Introductory: the 1925 decree. A- Speech in 1934. A- Speech in 1935. A- Speeches in 1936. A- Akhmatova. A- On translation and on Shakespeare.A-  Verlaine. A-  Chopin.V  An Essay on Doctor Zhivago               \t\t\t\t\t\t\t00  A novel in prose A . A- Writing poetry. A- A merging of concepts. A-    ... some moving entireness A .Notes\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00Bibliography\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t00","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360269566295,"sku":"9781934843239","price":32.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781934843239.jpg?v=1754127177","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-marsh-of-gold-pasternaks-writings-on-inspiration-and-creation-9781934843239","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}