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Zhivago's Secret Journey - From Typescript to Book (Hardcover)
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Zhivago's Secret Journey - From Typescript to Book (Hardcover)
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Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book
Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books
described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a
scholarly Sherlock Holmes". In this book Mancosu extends his
detective work by reconstructing the network of contacts that
helped Pasternak smuggle the typescripts of Doctor Zhivago outside
the Soviet Union and following the vicissitudes of the typescripts
when they arrived in the West. Mancosu draws on a wealth of
firsthand sources to piece together the long-standing mysteries
surrounding the many different typescripts that played a role in
the publication of Doctor Zhivago, thereby solving the problem of
which typescript served as the basis of the first Russian edition:
a pirate publication covertly orchestrated by the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA). He also offers a new perspective, aided
by the recently declassified CIA documents, by narrowing the focus
as to who might have passed the typescript to the CIA. In the
process, Mancosu reveals details of events that were treated as top
secret by all those involved, vividly recounting the history of the
publication of Pasternak's epic work with all its human and
political ramifications.
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