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Lately, however, there have been signs that Doctor Zhivago is assuming the place that Wilson had assigned to it. Interest has been quickened by the 1978 publication of A Captive of Time, the memoirs of Olga Ivinskaya, Pasternak...
...Lara." Last year there appeared a splendid biography of Pasternak by Guy de Mallac, the first in any language. Now comes an intriguing volume of letters by Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, lovingly edited and annotated by Elliott Mossman...
...letters span 44 terrible years, from Revolution and Red Terror through the great purges and war. The correspondents were cousins, akin in blood, spirit and culture: Olga, the distinguished classical scholar, and Boris, one of Russia's greatest modern poets. Of Pasternak's letters the most revealing bear upon Doctor Zhivago...
Shortly after Pasternak began 'writing his novel in the mid-1940s he wrote to Freidenberg: "It is my first real work. In it I want to convey the historical image of Russia over the past 45 years, and at the same time I want to express in every aspect of the story-a sad, dismal story, worked out in fine detail, ideally...
...years later Pasternak had completed the first part of his novel, which he then envisioned as a two-volume work. The book, he wrote his cousin in 1948, is "not even intended for current publication. Furthermore, I am not even writing it as a work of art, although it is literature in a deeper sense than anything I have ever done before. But I just don't know whether there is any art left in this world, or what art means." Following this veiled reference to Stalin's purges of the artistic intelligentsia, then raging in Moscow, Pasternak...