Max Hayward Boeken

On they went singing 'Eternal Memory', and whenever they stopped, the sound of their feet, the horses and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing ...Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women.

The dissertation posits that ethics is inherently mind-dependent, emerging from human interactions and the need for mutually sympathetic coexistence. It challenges traditional philosophical views that treat ethical foundations as theoretical, arguing instead that choosing a metaethical stance is a significant moral decision. The author advocates for anti-realism, suggesting that seeking objective moral truths undermines the importance of interpersonal relationships. By framing morality as a collective creation, the work emphasizes the relevance of ethical norms and the objectives of moral inquiry.

Hope Against Hope recounted the last four years in the life of the great Russian poet, Osip Mandelstam, and gave a hair-raising account of Stalin's terror. Hope Abandoned complements that earlier masterpiece, and in it Nadezhda Mandelstam describes their life together from 1919, and her own after Mandelstam's death in a labour camp in 1938. She also sets out his system of values and beliefs, and provides striking portraits of many of their contemporaries including Boris Pasternak and their champion till his own downfall, Nikolai Bukharin, as well as an astonishingly candid picture of Anna Akhmatova.