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"The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya--the true tragedy behind the timeless classic. When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak--whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet--he persecuted Boris's mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris's affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga's role in Boris's writing process. Twice Olga was sentenced to work in Siberian labor camps, where she was interrogated about the book Boris was writing, but she refused to betray the man she loved. When Olga was released from the gulags, she assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her but, trapped by his family's expectations and his own weak will, he never did. Drawing on previously neglected family sources and original interviews, Anna Pasternak explores this hidden act of moral compromise by her great-uncle, and restores to history the passionate affair that inspired and animated Doctor Zhivago. Devastated that Olga suffered on his behalf and frustrated that he could not match her loyalty to him, Boris instead channeled his thwarted passion for Olga into the love story in Doctor Zhivago. Filled with the rich detail of Boris's secret life, Lara unearths a moving love story of courage, loyalty, suffering, drama, and loss, and casts a new light on the legacy of Doctor Zhivago."--Publisher's description.… (más)
Anna Pasternak intertwines the lives of Boris Pasternak and his lover, Olga Ivinskaya. Stalin protects Pasternak from the gulag and execution. In order to to harm Pasternak, the authorities arrest and imprison Olga in the gulag at Potma. While given a lesser than normal sentence, her incarceration is an ordeal which leaves a permenent stamp. Released early under an amnesty, Olga assists Pasternak in his completion of Zhivago. Both Olga and Pasternak's wife oppose Zhivago's foreign publication until it is first published in the Soviet Union. Knowing his work would be bowdlerized in Russia, Pasternak gives the original to an Italian publisher, along with his blessing for its publication. What gives this work power is its focus on the suffering Olga endured for Boris. Though related to Pasternak -- she is his grand - niece -- Anna Pasternak offers us an honest d assessment of Pasternak's own selfishness in the relationship. He refuses to leave his wife and marry Olga when to do so would have protected Olga from a second arrest. Pasternak's declaration that Olga could not know how much he -- Pasternak -- is suffering when the later enters the hospital belies a narcissism. Anna Pasternak offers the reader a finely written and documented narration of a major work of literature as well as a major literary event. Before reading the fictionalized version of the woman in Pasaternak's life who was the inspiration for Lara in Doctor Zhivago, I would strongly recommend you read Anna Pasternak's book first. Throughout the world -- then and now -- Pasternak's principled refusal to submit his novel to the Soviet censors remains an inspiration. Anna Pasternak's finely written and superbly researched book represents a critical homage to Olga Ivanskaya's contribution to Pasternak's masterpiece. ( )
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In loving memory of my mother, Audrey Pasternak
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Novy Mir, meaning 'New World', the leading Soviet literary monthly where Olga Ivinskaya worked, was set up in 1925.
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It is not for nothing that you stand at the end of my life, my secret, forbidden angel, under the skies of war and turmoil, you who arose at its beginning under the peaceful skies of childhood. Yury Zhivago to Lara, Dr Zhivago
Writers can be divided into two types: meteors and fixed stars. The first produces a momentary effect: you gaze up and cry 'Look!' - and they vanish forever. Whereas fixed stars are unchanging, they stand firm in the firmament, shine by their own light and influence all ages equally; they belong to the universe. But it is precisely because they are so high that their light usually takes so many years to reach the eyes of dwellers on earth. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Perhaps their surrounding world, the strangers they met in the street, the landscapes drawn up for them to see on their walks, the rooms in which they lived or met, were even more pleased with their love than they were themselves.
"The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya--the true tragedy behind the timeless classic. When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak--whose novel-in-progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet--he persecuted Boris's mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris's affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga's role in Boris's writing process. Twice Olga was sentenced to work in Siberian labor camps, where she was interrogated about the book Boris was writing, but she refused to betray the man she loved. When Olga was released from the gulags, she assumed that Boris would leave his wife for her but, trapped by his family's expectations and his own weak will, he never did. Drawing on previously neglected family sources and original interviews, Anna Pasternak explores this hidden act of moral compromise by her great-uncle, and restores to history the passionate affair that inspired and animated Doctor Zhivago. Devastated that Olga suffered on his behalf and frustrated that he could not match her loyalty to him, Boris instead channeled his thwarted passion for Olga into the love story in Doctor Zhivago. Filled with the rich detail of Boris's secret life, Lara unearths a moving love story of courage, loyalty, suffering, drama, and loss, and casts a new light on the legacy of Doctor Zhivago."--Publisher's description.
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