[ilds] Boris Pasternak's library

[Marc Piel]

How about a wild guess and say that N°s 34 and 36 
were Justine and Clea. Judging by the dust covers 
the others have been very well read!
B.R.
Marc

Le 22/06/11 16:20, Bruce Redwine a écrit :
> I guess one can assume the Faber editions of 
> /Justine/ and /Clea/ were once part of the 
> library.  Pasternak was primarily a poet, 
> although he's known in the West for /Doctor 
> Zhivago /(1958), a contemporary of the 
> /Quartet./  Perhaps poetry was his main link to 
> Durrell.  Pasternak is compared to T. S. Eliot 
> and Rainer Maria Rilke — all have spiritual 
> connections.  Was /Doctor Zhivago/ in Durrell's 
> library?
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Charles Sligh wrote:
>
>> On 6/22/11 9:22 AM, Richard Pine wrote:
>>>
>>>         To see: two vols. of the AQ on the
>>>         shelves of Boris Pasternak.
>>>
>>>
>> Thanks for this photo, Richard.  I wonder what 
>> others make of it?  Especially those well-read 
>> in Pasternak.  I am ill-equipped there.
>>
>> I am very voyeuristic about these things -- 
>> about role-playing, reading one writer's work 
>> through the eyes of another writer.  For 
>> example, I once spent a very pleasurable week 
>> at Brasenose College reading Rossetti's poems 
>> in the volumes owned by Walter Pater.   Tiny 
>> pencil scratches in the margins were very 
>> eloquent in the stillness of that attic 
>> lumber-room. . . .
>>
>> That said, I suspect that much of our reading 
>> already happens this way -- reading literature 
>> gives us pleasure because we imagine that we 
>> are in conversation or companionship with some 
>> fondly remembered friend, hero, teacher, or 
>> lover.  Having a physical medium -- something 
>> pressed, earmarked, cup-ringed, annotated, or 
>> inscribed -- closes the gap.  Very mortal.  
>> Wonderful fellowship.
>>
>> C&c.
>> -- 
>> ********************************************
>> Charles L. Sligh
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of English
>> University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
>> charles-sligh at utc.edu
>> ********************************************
>
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