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Boris Pasternak's dacha in Peredelkino, where he lived between 1936 and 1960 Pasternak at Peredelkino in 1958 Pasternak at Peredelkino in 1959. Pasternak's post-Zhivago poetry probes the universal questions of love, immortality, and reconciliation with God. [66] [67] Boris Pasternak wrote his last complete book, When the Weather Clears, in 1959.
After Pasternak's death in 1960, Ivinskaya was arrested for the second time, with her daughter, Irina Emelianova. She was accused of being Pasternak's link with Western publishers in dealing in hard currency for Doctor Zhivago. The Soviet government quietly released them, Irina after one year, in 1962, and Ivinskaya in 1964. [1]
Despite his decision to decline the award, the Soviet Union of Writers continued to denounce Pasternak in the Soviet press. Furthermore, he was threatened at the very least with formal exile to the West. In response, Pasternak wrote directly to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, "Leaving the motherland will mean equal death for me. I am tied to ...
The 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the Soviet-Russian author Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition." [1] He is the second Russian-language writer to be awarded with such honor. [2]
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Yuri Andreievich Zhivago is the protagonist and title character of the 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. [1]Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and poet, is sensitive nearly to the point of mysticism.
Boris Pasternak, who survived, was one of his first targets. Pasternak crossed Stavsky by refusing to sign an Open Letter calling for death sentences for Grigori Zinoviev and the other defendants at the show trial of August 1936.
More recently, Boris Groys mentioned the issue in his book The Total Art of Stalinism, claiming that it served as an example of how the Soviet avant-garde inadvertently helped canonize Lenin after his death. [27] He does not, however, discuss the actual content of the articles.