[ilds] Boris Pasternak's library

[Richard Pine]

Zhivago - as far as can be ascertained, no LD didn't have it, although he did have 'Shakepeare, the Director', by P's niece Ann Pasternak Slater (who had, and possibly still has, the misfortune to be married to Craig Raine). RP


From: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
To: charles-sligh at utc.edu; ilds at lists.uvic.ca
Cc: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 5:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ilds] Boris Pasternak's library


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.
>
>-- 
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