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"Encounter"

[Russian] Boris Pasternak

One day, flying snow will cover the road and make it white Sloping eaves,

I was just about to go out and relax my feet - it was you, suddenly standing in front of the door.

You are alone, wearing an autumn coat, no hat, no boots.

You suppress your inner excitement and chew the wet snow in your mouth.

Trees and fences disappear into the distant mist.

You are covered in snow alone, standing motionless in the corner.

The snow water flows down from the turban, rolls towards the cuffs and drips slowly.

Dots of crystal snow powder sparkle on your hair.

The soft light of that lock of hair illuminates: your face,

your headscarf and body, and this thin cotton dress.

The snow has melted on your eyelashes, and your eyes are full of melancholy.

Your entire body is well-proportioned and harmonious, as if it were carved from a single piece of jade.

This seems to be my soul that has been taken away.

It seems to have been deeply scratched with blood by an antimony-plated steel knife.

Your beautiful face will remain in my heart forever.

Therefore, I will no longer care about the cruelty of the world.

Ah, intoxicated with these memories, I only feel the double shadow of this snowy night.

I can’t draw a dividing line between the two of us.

When we have passed away, the events of those years are still slandered by others.

No one will ask:

Who are we and where do we come from? Where?

Extended information:

1. Pasternak is a writer who insists on individual writing under the mainstream ideology. His spiritual independence is first reflected in the theme of his creation. superior. As early as the 1920s, Pasternak's poems were famous in the poetry world. However, because his poems mostly described the inner world of intellectuals, there was always a contrast with the vigorous external world.

2. His novel "Doctor Zhivago", written in the late 1940s, is a typical example. In the novel, Pasternak uses everything that the protagonist Dr. Zhivago encountered in his short 40-year life to show the fate of Russian intellectuals in the 20th century.

This novel is the author’s rational and emotional reflection on the real society using his own pen and heart. As the author said: “Doctor Zhivago is my first real work. I want to depict the past 45 years of Russian history in it.”

However, in the historical context of the "thawing" period of Soviet culture, the content and themes of the novel are inconsistent with the mainstream Soviet ideology of "praising the people and events that emerged in the socialist revolution and construction." "The creative spirit is not suitable, and the creative method is not consistent with the "socialist realism as the only creative method" advocated by the Soviet official.

In the creation of the novel "Doctor Zhivago", Pasternak did not adhere to the constraints of the "theoretical framework of socialist realism" that dominated the literary world at that time, and boldly used modernist ideas. Expression techniques, using a perspective beyond reality, pour all your thoughts and feelings about the country, society, life, etc. into the novel.

Written "extraordinary and eye-catching works, which not only shocked local Russian writers, but also amazed the Western literary world that had entered postmodernism at this time."

3. The short and medium-length novels written by Pasternak, such as "The First Experience", "A Story in One Character", "Second Portrait: Petersburg" and other works are multi-angle It perfectly expresses the writer's unique understanding and psychological experience of the external world in his youth.

In-depth thinking on the relationship between art and life, using a unique poetic method to convey the contemplation of the times, paying great attention to the personalities involved in the historical torrent, especially the experiences of contemporary women. It clearly shows the clear intention of writing the fate of a generation of intellectuals and "returning a generation to history".

4. In 1957, he published "Doctor Zhivago" and won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. Later, he was forced to refuse the Nobel Prize due to fierce attacks from the Soviet literary world.

5. 1990 is the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth. UNESCO declared this year as the Year of Pasternak.

6. In 1986, after the Soviet Union published Pasternak’s two-volume work, he published another book by Pasternak’s son Yevgeny Pasternak. The biography of his father and the novel "Doctor Zhivago" were also published in 1988, and his complete works were published in 1990, the centenary of Pasternak's birth.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Boris Leonidovich Pasternak