Letters

Summer 1926 (New York Review Books Classics)

by Marina Tsvetayeva, Rainer Maria Rilke, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Susan Sontag
 
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The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the three poets whose correspondence is collected in this moving volume. Marina Tsvetayeva was living in exile in France and struggling to get by. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Rainer Maria Rilke, in Switzerland, was dying. Though hardly known to each other, they began to correspond, exchanging a series of searching letters in which every aspect of life and work is discussed with extraordinary intensity and passion. "An extraordinary correspondence.... Makes us weep for what seems a vanished golden age of European culture." -- John Bayley

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  • Subtitle: Summer 1926 (New York Review Books Classics)
  • Media: Paperback Book, 408 pages
  • Publisher: NYRB Classics (September 01, 2001)
  • ISBN-10: 0940322714
  • ISBN-13: 9780940322714
  • Dimensions: 4.98 x 7.96 x 1.02 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.89 lbs
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