Европейские связи Бориса Пастернака
The European Connections of Boris Pasternak

Summary/Abstract: Boris Pasternak continued and developed family traditions of contacts with European andespecially German culture. These connections affected both his life and oeuvre. As a child anda young man he twice stayed for several months in Berlin and studied in Marburg when he alsotoured Venice; in 1935 he took part in a congress held in Paris. Upon the occasion of thosesojourns Pasternak became acquainted with outstanding representatives of European culture andmaintained the ensuing contacts via correspondence. His creative relations involved Europeanthemes, the location of the plot and the protagonists. He also made a great and valuable contributionto the assimilation by Russian culture of prominent works of German (Goethe, Schiller,Kleist), English (Shakespeare) and other literature, including Polish (Slowacki).

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