The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book
Finn, Peter, 1962-2015
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1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: ‘This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act. 1958. The life of this extraordinary book enters the realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, igniting worldwide political scandal. With first access to previously classified CIA files, The Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when literature had the power to shake the world.
Main title:
The Zhivago affair : the Kremlin, the CIA, and the battle over a forbidden book / Peter Finn and Petra Couvée.
Author:
Finn, Peter, 1962-, authorCouvée, Petra, author
Edition:
First Vintage Books edition.
Imprint:
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2015.©2014
Collation:
352 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-335) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off" -- ch. 2 "Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin" -- ch. 3 "I have arranged to meet you in a novel" -- ch. 4 "You are aware of the anti-Soviet nature of the novel!" -- ch. 5 "Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man" -- ch. 6 "Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture" -- ch. 7 "If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well, I must say we have a different view of it" -- ch. 8 "We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain" -- ch. 9 "We'll do it black" -- ch. 10 "He also looks the genius: raw nerves, misfortune, fatality" -- ch. 11 "There would be no mercy, that was clear" -- ch. 12 "Pasternak's name spells war" -- ch. 13 "I am lost like a beast in an enclosure" -- ch. 14 "A college weekend with Russians" -- ch. 15 "An unbearably blue sky" --Contents note continued: ch. 16 "It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published".-- Afterword
ISBN:
9780345803191 (paperback)
Dewey class:
891.7342891.73
Language:
English
Subject:
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doktor ZhivagoUnited States. Central Intelligence Agency -- History -- 20th centuryAuthors, Russian -- 20th century -- BiographyDissenters -- Soviet Union -- BiographyProhibited books -- Soviet Union -- HistoryPolitics and literature -- Soviet Union -- HistorySoviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United StatesUnited States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet UnionSoviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985Censorship -- History
BRN:
351603
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| WEST RYDE | ADULT NON-FICTION | 891.73 FINNArts & Literature | Available |