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Selected Poems

by Boris Pasternak, Boris Pasternak · 1946 · 160 pages

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Aleksandr Blok (1880-1921) lived through his country's savage wars and radical traumas trying to welcome the new order. Trotsky wrote, `Certainly Blok is not one of us, but he came towards us. And that is what broke him.'

Pasternak said, `He is as free as the wind.'

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Themes
writers
Setting
russia
Audience
adult
Length
short · 160 pages
Form
poetry

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