Description
The conflict between Soviet Communists and Boris Pasternak over the publication of Doctor Zhivago did not end when he won the Nobel Prize, or even when the author died. Paolo Mancosu tells how Pasternak's expulsion from the Soviet Writers' Union left him in financial difficulty. Milan publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and Sergio d'Angelo, who had brought the typescript of Doctor Zhivago to Feltrinelli, were among those who arranged a smuggling operation to help him.After Pasternak's death, Olga Ivinskaya, his companion, literary assistant, and the inspiration for Zhivago's Lara, also received some of the Zhivago royalties. After the KGB intercepted Pasternak's will on her behalf, the Soviets arrested and sentenced her and her daughter, Irina Emelianova, to eight years and three years of labor camp, respectively. The ensuing international outrage inspired a secret campaign in the West to win their freedom.Mancosu's new book-the first to explore the post-Nobel history of Pasternak and Ivinskaya-provides extraordinary detail on these events, in a thrilling account that involves KGB interceptions, fabricated documents, smugglers, and much more. While a general reader will respond to the dramatic human story, specialists will be rewarded with a rich assemblage of new archival material, especially letters of Pasternak, Ivinskaya, Feltrinelli, and d'Angelo from the Hoover Institution Library and Archives and the Feltrinelli Archives in Milan.
About the Author
Paolo Mancosu is the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak's Masterpiece (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2013), Smugglers, Rebels, Pirates: Itineraries in the Publishing History of Doctor Zhivago (Stanford: Hoover Press, 2015), and Zhivago's Secret Journey: From Typescript to Book (Hoover Press, 2016). He has been a fellow of the Humboldt Stiftung, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Institut d'Etudes AvancEes in Paris.
Book Information
ISBN 9780817922443
Author Paolo Mancosu
Format Hardback
Page Count 396
Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 635g
About the Author
Paolo Mancosu is the Willis S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California-Berkeley. He is the author of Inside the Zhivago Storm: The Editorial Adventures of Pasternak's Masterpiece (Milan: Feltrinelli, 2013), Smugglers, Rebels, Pirates: Itineraries in the Publishing History of Doctor Zhivago (Stanford: Hoover Press, 2015), and Zhivago's Secret Journey: From Typescript to Book (Hoover Press, 2016). He has been a fellow of the Humboldt Stiftung, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Institut d'Etudes AvancEes in Paris.
Book Information
ISBN 9780817922443
Author Paolo Mancosu
Format Hardback
Page Count 396
Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 635g
