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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., '38, professor of History, plans to assist a world wide group of literary figures who are attempting to gain freedom for Mme. Vsevolodnaya Ivinskaya, a close friend and literary classic collaborator of the late Boris Pasternak...
...active and very important member of the Union of Writers. As literary editor of the Union magazine, Novyi Mir, he was among the first who read and refused to publish Doctor Zhivago. "There were two reasons why I didn't like the book. First, it seemed to me that Pasternak considered the February revolution a good thing and that he thought the October revolution was evil. I think the October revolution was a good thing. So, from the standpoint of ideas, I disagreed. Then, the fact was, that to me, this was a very boring book. Pasternak is quite...
...that she had been impressed by their familiarity with the Russian language and literature. "But they only seem to know about the classical authors: Tolstoi, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov. These, of course, are very good, but we also have many fine contemporary poets and novelists. All you see here is Pasternak; everyone reads Pasternak. In my country Pasternak is also very well known, but he is known as a translator of Shakespeare's plays. His writing as such is generally considered second-rate. Most students here haven't read or, often, even heard of most of our first rate modern writers, people...
...shirt commits suicide, but Russian suicides cling to the superstition that a change of linen should precede death. On April 14, 1930 Poet Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky changed his shirt. Then he slipped a cartridge into his revolver and played Russian roulette. He lost. According to his friend Boris Pasternak, "the news rocked the telephones, blanketed faces with pallor ... [people] all the way up the staircase wept and pressed against each other." It was a blow from which Soviet literature has never quite recovered, for Mayakovsky was the unchallenged laureate of the revolution. A critic named Josef Stalin flatly acclaimed...
...Fate. "Only three weeks ago," said Composer Nicolas Nabokov, cousin of the U.S.'s bestselling Novelist Vladimir (Lolita) Nabokov, "they held Boris Pasternak's funeral outside Moscow. Though the newspapers printed no word of it. 1,500 people came [TIME, June 13]. Though nothing of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago has ever been published in Russia, a single unknown young person stepped forward and began reciting a poem from Zhivago called 'Hamlet.' As he recited, voice after voice joined in until it seemed the whole crowd was reciting together." With that, Nabokov wound up the conference...