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...news of this journalistic invasion, Poet-Author Boris (Doctor Zkivago) Pasternak discreetly abandoned his dacha near Moscow for a Black Sea resort beyond camera or notebook range...
...laughter of his guests had suddenly died away, and Boris Pasternak sat disconsolately at his own 69th birthday party listening to the angry words of his wife. "How many times have I told you not to trust journalists?" she shrilled. "They are only exploiting you for personal gain. If this continues, I'll leave you." Sadly the old poet murmured, "I promise you, Zinochka"-but nothing could change the fact that just as the ugly furor over Doctor Zhivago and the Nobel Prize seemed to be fading away, something new had happened to stir things up again...
...Pasternak insisted that he had given Anthony Brown of the London Daily Mail a batch of poems, all in longhand, to be delivered to a friend, Jacqueline de Proyart, curator of the Tolstoy Museum in Paris. Now he learned that Brown had taken it upon himself to publish in the Daily Mail a poem bearing the title Nobel Prize. The poem, said Pasternak, was written "in a black, pessimistic mood that has now passed." The very fact that Brown had plucked it out from all the others "shows what motivated the young man," the old man went on indignantly. Whether...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book that renews all who read it and condemns those who banned...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...