REVIEWS (since 1984)

Boris Pasternak

Fleishman, Lazar (ed.) The Life of Boris Pasternak’s ‘Doctor Zhivago’. Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2009.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 91, no. 3, July 2013. JSTOR

Slater, Maya (ed.) Boris Pasternak: Family Correspondence,1921-1960. Translated by Nicolas Pasternak-Slater, 2010.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, vol.89, no.3, July 2011, pp. 532-4. Read the review

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction by Richard Pevear. Harvill Secker. REVIEWED in Times Literary Supplement, 24.06.2011. Read the review

Lazar Fleishman, Boris Pasternak i literaturnoe dvizhenie 1930-kh godov. Sovremennaia zapadnaia rusistika. Akademicheskii proekt, St Petersburg, 2005. REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 86, no. 3, 2008, pp. 527-30. JSTOR

Christopher Barnes, Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography. Volume 2, 1928-1960, Cambridge and New York, 1998, 509 pages. REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, 77, 4, 1999, pp. 741-3. JSTOR

Karen Evans-Romaine, Boris Pasternak and the Tradition of German Romanticism. Munich, 1997, 329 pages.  REVIEWED in The Russian Review, Illinois, July 1998, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 470-1. JSTOR

Lazar Fleishman et al, Boris Pasternaks Lehrjahre. Neopublikovannye filosofskie konspekty i zametki,  Stanford, 1996, 2 vols, 800 pages.  REVIEWED in Slavic Review, vol 57, no 4, Winter 1998,  pp. 945-6. Read the review

Larissa Rudova, Pasternak’s Short Fiction and the Cultural Vanguard, Middlebury Studies in Russian Language and Literature, Vol. 6, Peter Lang, 1994.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 74, No. 4, 1996, pp. 711-12.

A.Meyer, ‘Sestra moja – žizn’ von Boris Pasternak. Analyse und Interpretation. 1987. REVIEWED in SEER, 66, 4,  Oct. 1988, pp.649-50. JSTOR

A. Ljunggren, Juvenilia B. Pasternaka: 6 fragmentov o Relikvimini. Almquist and Wiksell, Stockholm, 1984, 182 pages. REVIEWED in Irish Slavonic Studies, no.7.  1986, pp.127-29. Read the review

Marina Tsvetaeva

Lily Feiler, Marina Tsvetaeva, The Double Beat of Heaven and Hell, Durham, NC, and London, 1994.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 74, No. 3, 1996, pp. 508-9. JSTOR

J. Faryno, Mifologizm i teologizm Tsvetaevoi, 1985. REVIEWED in Irish Slavonic Studies, No.9.  1988, pp.161-2.

S. Karlinsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, The Woman, her World and her Poetry, 1985.
REVIEWED in Journal of European Studies, xvii 1987, pp.229-30.

Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke, Letters, Summer 1926, ed. Yevgeny Pasternak et al., 1986.  REVIEWED in SEER, 65, 2,  Apr. 1987, pp.270-1. JSTOR

Andrei Platonov

A. Platonov, Soul, transl. R. and E. Chandler and Olga Meerson, Harvill Press, 2003. REVIEWED in The Literary Review, London, August, 2003, pp. 50-51.

Olga Meerson, “Svobodnaia veshch’”: Poetika neostraneniia u Andreia Platonova, Berkeley Slavic Specialties, 1997.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review,  vol. 79, no. 4, 2001, pp. 732-4. Read the review

Thomas Langerak, Andrei Platonov.  Materialy dlia biografii 1899-1929 gg.  Pegasus, Amsterdam, 1995.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 74, No. 4, 1996, pp. 715-17. JSTOR

T. Seifrid, Andrei Platonov, Uncertainties of Spirit.  C.U.P., 1992. REVIEWED in Slavonic Review, Vol.71, No. 3, July 1993, pp. 521-2. JSTOR

Other

Catriona Kelly & Stephen Lovell (eds.), Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts, C.U.P., 2000.   REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 80, no. 2, 2002, pp. 328-330.

Andrey Bely, The Silver Dove, translated by John Elsworth, Angel Books, London, 2000.  REVIEWED in Slavonica, Manchester University Press, 7/1, 2001, p. 77.

Anna Tavis, Rilke’s Russia, A Cultural Encounter.  Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 1994.  REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 74, No. 3, 1996, pp. 506-8.

Wolf Schmidt, Proza kak poeziia:  Stat’i o povestvovanii v russkoi literature.  St. Petersburg. REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 73, 1995, No. 3, pp. 517-18.

W. Eggeling et al., Der russische Werther. Analysen und Materialien zu einem Kapitel deutsch-russischer Literaturbeziehungen, 1988. REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, Vol, 68, No. 3, July 1990, p.533.

J. Andrew, Women in Russian Literature, 1780-1863, 1988. REVIEWED in Slavonic and East European Review, 68, 2, Apr. 1990,  pp.312-13.

B. Heldt, Terrible Perfection: Women and Russian Literature.  1987. REVIEWED in SEER, 67, 3, July 1989, pp.460-61.

D. Davie, Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric, 1986.  REVIEWED in SEER, 67, 2, Apr. 1989, pp.290-91. JSTOR

D. Herrmann et al., Deutsche und Deutschland in der russischen Lyrik des frühen 20.  Jahrhunderts, 1988. REVIEWED in SEER, 68, 2,  Apr. 1990,  pp.318-19.

Engel-Braunschmidt, Hebbel in Russland (1840-1978), 1985.  REVIEWED in SEER, 65, 4. Oct. 1987, p. 666.

U. Kahlenborn, Goethes Lyrik in russischer Übersetzung,  1985. REVIEWED in SEER, 65, 1.  Jan. 1987, pp.139-40. JSTOR

P. France, Poets of Modern Russia, 1982. REVIEWED in Journal of Russian Studies, 47, 1984, pp.63-4.