Word: pasternak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle-Pasternak...
...Rules. When Stalin died, Pasternak wrote his novel Doctor Zhivago out of a passionate Christian conviction that salvation is possible only through the individual human spirit. He had shown that spirit in conflict with Soviet society, against which he had sharp things to say -but he had not written merely a political tract. Yet his message undercut the whole dogma of the socialist panacea, as Pasternak's Moscow editors worriedly said in their surprisingly mild 1956 letter of rejection, which was made public in Russia last fortnight...
...lived through 40 years of Communist rule, Pasternak has had to learn to live by the rules in contemporary Russia. He turned down the Nobel Prize; he addressed an eloquent personal plea to Nikita Khrushchev ("To leave my country would be death") against the exile that the party literary hacks led by David Zaslavsky were insistently demanding. And when all this was not enough, he wrote to Pravda...
...Artist's Fable. Without ever repudiating Doctor Zhivago-which, he repeated, had been published abroad without his authority-Pasternak expressed only regrets at the way in which some had interpreted it. "After the end of the week, when I saw the scope of the political campaign around my novel, I realized myself that this award was a political measure." His Soviet editors, wrote Pasternak, "warned me that the novel might be understood as a work directed against the October Revolution and the founders of the Soviet system. I did not realize this, and I now regret...
Returning from Russia, British Laborite M.P. Richard Grossman reported last week: "This decision not to publish Pasternak has caused a first-class sensation in Moscow. Indeed, I found every Russian anxious to talk to me about it and discuss the pros and cons." The sensation would continue, and Pasternak's recantation in Pravda was bound to widen the Russians' curiosity about the great work they were not allowed to read. Years ago Poet Pasternak had warned...