2010, ISBN: 0307377695

[EAN: 9780307377692], Neubuch, [PU: Pantheon, Random House, Inc., New York], LITERATURE: RUSSIAN: TWENTIETH CENTURY: PASTERNAK, BORIS: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO: TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LAURA… mais…

[EAN: 9780307377692], Neubuch, [PU: Pantheon, Random House, Inc., New York], LITERATURE: RUSSIAN: TWENTIETH CENTURY: PASTERNAK, BORIS: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO: TRANSLATED BY RICHARD PEVEAR & LAURA VOLOKHONSKY: INTRODUCTION, Jacket, DEFINITIVE: GLORIOUS: MAGNIFICENT: NEW Stated First American Edition (Orig. 2010) First Printing: NEW unclipped mylar-protected color-illus. jacket w sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $30.00 pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE text-block exterior w/ smooth-cut top & bottom edges & cut-page-style side-edging , NEW EXCEPTIONALLY HANDSOME black laid-paper-over-boards cover w/ NEW edges & corners & titles ELEGANTLY gold-stamped on spine & "Doctor Zhivago" stamped black-on-black at top center of front panel, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & pale-crimson-cloth bands at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior printed w/ BEAUTIFUL clarity in Sabon on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper. * 6.50" x 9.50" x 1.54", 0.94 kg, xxii+520 (542) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: Boris Pasternak's widely acclaimed novel comes GLORIOUSLY to life in a MAGNIFICENT new translation by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of "War and Peace" & "Anna Karenina", & to whom, The NYRB declared, "the English-speaking world is indebted". First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy—the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, & Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authorities—Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life & loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites & the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty & strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender & beautiful Lara: pursued, found, & lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain & chaos of those cataclysmic times. Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternak’s original--resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, & tonE--& including an introduction, textual annotations, & a translators’ note, this edition of Doctor Zhivago is destined to become the DEFINITIVE English translation of our time. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "An outstanding translation. Pevear & Volokhonsky capture Pasternak's voice w/ great skill. Thanks to their sensitive rendering, those reading Doctor Zhivago" in English can now get a far better sense of Pasternak's style, for they have produced an English text that conveys the nuances (along w/ the occasional idiosyncracies) of Pasternak's writing. Notably as well, their version includes some phrases & sentences that inexplicably were omitted by the original translators. The text is accompanied by useful (but not overwhelming) notes in the back that provide information about many historical & cultural references that would otherwise be obscure for those coming to the novel for the first time." -Barry Scherr, Mandel Family Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College. "In faithfulness to the original, attention to stylistic details & nuances, lucidity & brilliance it matches Pevear & Volokhonsky's superb translations of such monumental classics of Russian literature as Tolstoy's "War and Peace" & Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov." -Lazar Fleishman, Stanford University. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Poet, translator & novelist BORIS PASTERAK was born in Moscow in 1890. In 1958 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but, facing threats from Soviet authorities, refused the prize. He lived in virtual exile in an artists’ community near Moscow until his death in 1960. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS: RICHARD PEVEAR & LARISSA VOLOKHONSKY are the award-winning translators of Tolstoy's "War and Peace", among many other works of Russian literature. They are married & live in France. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLAS, Books<