Word: pasternak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...critical hobby-horses have been ridden to hell, and the trumpets are put away. Edmund Wilson and the Nobel Prize Committee and the Soviet Writers Union and the American newspaper editorial pages have had their say on Pasternak--and perhaps now a second reading and some thoughts are in order...
...story of the Russian intellectual--the disintegration of the man of ideas. Zhivago, as a student in the University, welcomes the Revolution; as a professional man displaced, repudiates it; as a degenerate in a one-room Moscow flat, is finally destroyed by it. In the process of that destruction, Pasternak tells the story of Russia in the 20th century--of the parasites who feed on emergent ideologies, of men serving and struggling against systems and faiths they cannot grasp, of the miasma of bureaucracy, land reform, nobility, and military that was Russia after October...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. With world sales of at least 1,500,000 copies, the book without a country continues to race through the inner space of humanity's heart and conscience...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...
...neither the Kremlin nor Author Pasternak can lay hands on the $250,000 in royalties which are being held in a European bank...