Boris Leonidovič Pasternak

The Profile

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890–1960) was a Russian poet and novelist, best known internationally for the novel Doctor Zhivago and for his poetry. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.

Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958; renowned as both a poet and the author of Doctor Zhivago. The reviews and scholarship connect his poetry to Russian Futurism, Imaginism and influences such as Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Blok and Mandelstam.

A single appreciative review highlights Pasternak primarily as a poet, while noting his wider fame from Doctor Zhivago and the 1958 Nobel. The reviewer traces his roots in Russian avant‑gardes (Futurism, Imaginism) and names influences like Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov, Blok and Mandelstam. The Poesie (Einaudi) anthology is presented as a wide‑ranging selection of his lyrical work. The tone is conversational, metaphor-rich and observant of Pasternak's attention to natural detail.