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...As the great poet Boris Pasternak wrote: “Getting through life is not a stroll across a field.”...
...Ghosts from Robert Maxwell’s shady past might rear up....
...Under the Soviet regime, Boris Pasternak, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky all won the Nobel Prize in Literature; all three were admired as much for their moral courage as for their writing....
...An extract from ‘Portraits Without Frames’, edited by Robert Chandler and Boris Dralyuk (Granta £14.99/NYRB $16.95) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...It’s a tale of movie giants, from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway to writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski....
...They took to calling themselves (Robert E.) “Lee’s Miserables”. In politics, Hugo backed well-managed change. His novel pleas for “progress that has a gentle incline”....
...Shawn Pasternak, Washington, DC You Don’t Look Your Age . . . and Other Fairy Tales by Sheila Nevins....
...The breadth of the collection is also manifest in the inclusion of both famous names, such as Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, and lesser-known authors....
...Some of the great names of 20th-century Russian literature, among them Vladimir Nabokov, Maxim Gorky and Boris Pasternak, all spent time in the German capital....
...The translator Robert Chandler’s work on Andrei Platonov and, even more significantly, Vasily Grossman has gone a long way to restoring them to their rightful place in the Russian canon....
...Robert and Elizabeth Chandler’s translation of ‘An Armenian Sketchbook’, by Vasily Grossman, is published by MacLehose Press this week...
...James Lovegrove ——————————————- CRIME The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Little, Brown, RRP£20/ Mulholland Books, RRP$28 Now that her cover is blown and we all know that Robert Galbraith is actually...
...He attracted the admiration of the American Robert Lowell, and translations by W H Auden, who said in an introduction to his poetry that “every word he writes, even when he is criticising, reveals a profound...
...In this collection we hear him talking to his literary friends and heroes: Boris Pasternak, Erich Fromm, Albert Camus, Jacques Maritain and James Baldwin....
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