The Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers
An enthralling novelette by Boris Pasternak, the author of Dr. Zhivago, Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers explores how a thirteen-year-old girl ceases to be a child and becomes a woman in Russia just before the Communist Revolution. The story examines the world through the reminiscences of a young girl and explores such themes as nature and how we are able to shape the world around us by how we perceive it. The novelette gives readers a prime example of Pasternak’s signature style and use of poetics, imagery, and lyricism in prose.
Adolescence of Zhenya Luvers is one of Pasternak’s first stories, and it originally appeared in a collection by the same name published in 1925.
About the Author
Boris (Leonidovich) Pasternak was a Russian philosopher, poet, writer, and translator. He is famous worldwide for his novel Doctor Zhivago, which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. Born in Moscow in 1890 to a painter father and concert-pianist mother, Pasternak first pursued...
Author: Pasternak Boris
ISBN: 9780806530086
Year of publication: 2007
Genre: Classics
Number of pages: 71
Reading time: 1 h. 11 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
