DOCTOR ZHIVAGO - BORIS PASTERNAK (1957): Due to its independent - TopicsExpress



          

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO - BORIS PASTERNAK (1957): Due to its independent minded stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the Soviet Union so Pasternak sent several copies of the manuscript in Russian to friends in the West. In 1957, Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli arranged for the novel to be smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published an Italian translation. So great was the demand for Doctor Zhivago that Feltrinelli was able to license translation rights into 18 different languages. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event which humiliated the Communist Party. More here: shortlist/entertainment/books/the-30-best-debut-novels#item-2
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:50:03 +0000

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