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Boris Pasternak's autobiographical sketch is the most outspoken and heart-searching document a great poet has ever written. It takes courage to dismiss, as Pasternak does, most of his literary output of the twenty-odd years that followed the publication in 1914 of his first volume of verse, A Twin in the Clouds, with the dry remark, 'I do not like my style up to 1940'; but it takes even greater courage, knowing the sort of aura of sanctity that hangs over the name of Mayakovsky in the Soviet Union, to declare that he rejects half of Mayakovsky, or, even more bluntly, that Mayakovsky was being 'propagated' by the Communist Government 'like potatoes in the reign of Catherine the Great.'
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Shawna Charbonneau
reviewed I remember on August 03, 2010
I remember
I was disappointed in this one. It started off well - he chronicles his early interests, memories and aspirations. His recollection of Tolstoy's death was very moving. Unfortunately that is the highpoint. From there he devolves into "I knew this famous poet/writer/composer and here is why they weren't all that great." He mentions his friends and his sorrow over what befell them, but he never actually follows it up with any specifics. There is very little about the realities of his life, how these friends were important to him, etc. And then, that's it. He signs off and the rest of the book is about his translations of Shakespeare. Just a little random. His notes on the plays turned out to be pretty interesting but I'm still unclear on why they were included.
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