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Moscow has Ears Everywhere - New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya (Hardcover, None ed.)
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Moscow has Ears Everywhere - New Investigations on Pasternak and Ivinskaya (Hardcover, None ed.)
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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.
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