A poet's journey through music and philosophy. Read More
How does one become a poet? To explore this question, Ioulia Podoroga follows the aesthetic itinerary of Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) through his various creative and intellectual experiences, shifts, and hesitations.
The Russian writer and poet, winner of a Nobel Prize for literature, reflected at length on his own life and the impact of key events such as his meeting with the composer Alexander Scriabin and his study of philosophy in Marburg with Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp.
In the light of current research on Pasternak, the book examines the relationship between music, philosophy and poetry in his work, tracing the stages in the construction of the "lyric subject".