Isaiah Berlin: A LifeIsaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for 10 years, before's Berlin's death in November 1997, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him about his past, his ideas, his most intimate memories, and his inner conflicts. |
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... Pasternak and other writers had their summer dachas . Isaiah , carrying the package of boots packed by Lydia and Josephine Pasternak and accompanied by Lina Prokofiev , journeyed out there by train on a sunlit autumn afternoon at the ...
... Pasternak and other writers had their summer dachas . Isaiah , carrying the package of boots packed by Lydia and Josephine Pasternak and accompanied by Lina Prokofiev , journeyed out there by train on a sunlit autumn afternoon at the ...
Page 144
... Pasternak believed that all these episodes of horror and self - abasement were behind him . He was in an exalted , even euphoric mood . The war , for all its privations , had enabled Pasternak to identify himself and his work with the ...
... Pasternak believed that all these episodes of horror and self - abasement were behind him . He was in an exalted , even euphoric mood . The war , for all its privations , had enabled Pasternak to identify himself and his work with the ...
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... Pasternak's Liuver's Childhood had also been published in translation , and Isaiah gave him pleasure by telling him that he had read it . For Pasternak , every scrap of attention from the West was precious : it proved that he had not ...
... Pasternak's Liuver's Childhood had also been published in translation , and Isaiah gave him pleasure by telling him that he had read it . For Pasternak , every scrap of attention from the West was precious : it proved that he had not ...
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