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I came across this really nice poem by Boris Pasternak. For the original version in Russian please go to this link. - Chol http://www.kulichki.com:8101/poems/Poets/bp/Rus/bp_2.html Title: "There'll be noone in the house" 1931. By Boris Pasternak. Translated by Alex Miller There'll be noone in the house Save for twilight. All alone, Winter's day seen in the space that's Made by curtains left undrawn. * Only flash-past of the wet white * Once more, frost will trace its patterns, * Once more I'll be troubled by an * But the quiver of intrusion You'll appear there in the doorway Wearing something white and plain, Something in the very stuff from Which the snowflakes too are sewn. In case you don't know who he is, here's a short biography... Born in Moscow, the son of the painter and academicain Leonid Pasternak, he graduated in 1913 from the philosophical departament of the Faculty of History and Philology at Moscow University. In the summer of 1912 he studied philosophy in the University of Marburg and went to Italy where he visited Florence and Venice. Profoundly impressed by Scryabin's music, he devoted the next six years to studying composition. His first poetry was published in 1913. In 1917 Pasternak wrote the wonderful series of lyrics which forms the book "My Sister Life". This led him being numbered as one of the most important poets of his time. After the revolution of 1917 the poet worked in the departament of libraries of the Peoples' Commisariat of Education. In 1920 he joined LEF, the literary grouping which Vladimir Mayakovsky has founded. The main work of his life was two-volumed novel "Doctor Zhivago". He received the Nobel's award in 1958 for this work. It was the start of his conflict with the ruling circles. This novel was forbidden for publishing in USSR immediatly after it was created. The rulers perceive the fact of awarding like the slap in the face. The poet was called to court for parasitism (!). The formal reason was the absence of the special poetic aducation (for ex. philological faculty). He was excluded from the Union of the Writers. | ||
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