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PASTERNAK, Boris (1890-1960). Vstupitelnyi ocherk

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ca. 1957. Carbon copy typescript, recto only of 71 leaves (288 x 202 mm), numbered from 1-71, with numerous manuscript corrections in pencil in the author's hand. Bound with light blue ribbon into contemporary light blue wrappers, panel with roneo'd facsimile title mounted on upper cover. Condition: light overall toning to "text," occasional light soiling; covers laid down and with extensive restoration. early typescript of the poet's essay in autobiography. One of the Nobel Prize Winner's last works, being a supplement to his earlier autobiography, Okhrannaya gramota [Safe Conduct] (1931). It is divided into "Infancy," 'Skryabin," "Nine Hundred Years," "Before the First World War" and "Three Shadows." Among his contemporaries whom he discusses are his fellow writers Aleksandr Blok, Sergei Esenin, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsevtaeva and the composer and teacher Aleksandr Skryabin. The poet was surprisingly frank about his own work, admitting that he did not like his style before 1940. It was published first in Italian and then in English as I Remember: Sketch for an Autobiography in 1959.

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