The third and final volume of the collected works edited by Christine Fischer presents Boris Pasternak in his most desperate hours: Stalinism, political persecution, and the death of his soulmates Ossip Mandelstam and Marina Tsvetaeva lead to withdrawal and isolation. During this time, he wrote his major translations of Shakespeare and Goethe and secretly began his masterpiece "Doctor Zhivago." The numerous poems and letters in this volume capture the contradictions of their time, the "Century of Wolves," and show that the main work of this brilliant poet lies not in his novel but in his poems. The first two volumes of the collected works, "My Sister - Life" and "Second Birth," have also been published by Fischer Klassik.