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'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an
irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times
The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris
Pasternak and Olga Ivinskaya - the tragic true story that inspired
Doctor Zhivago. 'Doctor Zhivago' has sold in its millions yet the
true love story that inspired it has never been fully explored.
Pasternak would often say 'Lara exists, go and meet her', directing
his visitors to the love of his life and literary muse, Olga
Ivinskaya. They met in 1946 at the literary journal where she
worked. Their relationship would last for the remainder of their
lives. Olga paid an enormous price for loving 'her Boria'. She
became a pawn in a highly political game and was imprisoned twice
in Siberian labour camps because of her association with him and
his controversial work. Her story is one of unimaginable courage,
loyalty, suffering, tragedy, drama and loss. Drawing on both
archival and family sources, Anna Pasternak's book reveals for the
first time the critical role played by Olga in Boris's life and
argues that without Olga it is likely that Doctor Zhivago would
never have been completed or published. Anna Pasternak is a writer
and member of the famous Pasternak family. She is the
great-granddaughter of Leonid Pasternak, the impressionist painter
and Nobel Prize winning novelist Boris Pasternak was her
great-uncle. She is the author of three previous books.
'Draws startling parallels with Meghan ... Both were 34 when they
met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single
mothers, both have a pared-down style and an electric presence and
both are evidently worshipped by their Royal partners.' S Magazine
The intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in
British royal history. Life has always been made difficult for
those marrying into England's royal family. In 1936, just months
into his reign, King Edward VIII proposed to Wallis Simpson, a
divorced American woman. Gossip ran wild, and that cacophony of
speculation and distrust both hid the real Wallis, and forced
Edward into abdicating so that he might marry the woman he adored.
In this intimate biography Anna Pasternak seeks to understand
Wallis - and her relationship with Edward and The Crown. Using
testimony from her closest friends, she shows the warm, loyal,
intelligent woman who was written off and undermined by the
powerful, often manipulative men of the Establishment. This is
Wallis Simpson's story as it has never been told before. Previously
published as Untitled.
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Padagogik -
Heilpadagogik, Sonderpadagogik, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Fachbereich
Erziehungswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Die Geburt
ist ein aufregendes Ereignis im Leben des Kindes. Es verlasst die
behagliche Warme des Mutterleibes. Die Welt, in die es kommt, ist
voll von grellem Licht, lauter und kalter. Nun muss es selbst atmen
und essen. Aber der kleine Mensch ist gut vorbereitet: Schon Monate
vorher hat er gelernt, zu schlucken, zu saugen und zu greifen.
Alles hat sich zur gegebenen Zeit entwickelt" (Sekretariat der
Deutschen Bischofskonferenz, S. 15). Auch fur die Mutter ist dieses
Ereignis entscheidend. Es wird ihr Leben verandern. Zum ersten Mal
halt sie ihr eigenes Kind im Arm. Sie kann es sehen, beruhren und
begreifen, d.h. sie kann einen direkten Kontakt zu ihm aufnehmen.
Wahrend der zuruckliegenden Schwangerschaft war dies nur bedingt
moglich. Erst in der zweiten Halfte der Schwangerschaft konnte sie
das Kind durch seine Bewegungen und Tritte wahrnehmen. Zuvor spurte
sie nur die Veranderung ihres eigenen Korpers. Daher sind gerade in
dieser Zeit der Schwangerschaft fur die werdende Mutter die Besuche
bei ihrem Gynakologen besonders wichtig. Bei diesen Besuchen erhalt
sie nicht nur Informationen uber die ersten Entwicklungsschritte
ihres Kindes, sondern es werden ihr auch verschiedene pranatal
diagnostische Untersuchungsmethoden von ihrem Arzt empfohlen,
welche "dem Wohle" ihres Kindes dienen sollen. Ausser den
mittlerweile ublichen Vorsorgeuntersuchungen, wie z.B. Ultraschall,
werden den Frauen individuell verschiedene, spezielle zusatzliche
pranatale Untersuchungen angeboten, welche zahlreiche Informationen
uber die vorgeburtliche Entwicklung ihres Kindes vermitteln sollen.
Jedoch beeinflussen nicht selten die moglichen Ergebnisse der
pranatalen Untersuchungen die Beziehung der zukunftigen Mutter zu
ihrem ungeborenen Kind. Diese konnen ihr sowohl Sicherhei
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