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Article: AMHERST COLLEGE RUSSIAN PROFESSOR CIEPIELA TO READ, NOV. 9
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 31, 2006
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Amherst University issued the following press release:
Catherine Ciepiela, professor of Russian at Amherst College, will read from The Same Solitude, her new book that follows the epistolary romance between Russian poets Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9, at Amherst Books (8 Main Street). Sponsored by the Creative Writing Center at Amherst College, this event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
The novel represents a fascinating study of the unlikely yet lasting relationship that arose between two of Russia's greatest modernist poets during the 1920s. The correspondence began in 1922, after Pasternak sent a letter praising the ...