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Obviously, Boris Pasternak...
THERE have been few headlines I about Boris Pasternak since the two days on which he 1) received and 2) declined the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature. The nature of Pasternak's achievement is one that does not lend itself to headlines, but is nevertheless of the deepest concern to journalism. Says TIME: "Pasternak has called his book's tremendous success the 'Zhivago miracle,' but the paradox of the Pasternak miracle is equally compelling. He is a stubborn man who is not really a martyr. He is an aggrieved man and yet not an avenger...
...graveyard, the poet continued to write-and one of the things that shaped his vision was the contrast between the graves and his youth's calm summer landscape, the eternal tension between life and death. In Doctor Zhivago, one of this century's remarkable novels, Boris Pasternak carried that theme to its climax. With this embattled book he restored to the world the image of what Russia has long been, despite violence, madness and corruption -a preacher to the nations on the text of death and resurrection...
...Stockholm this week Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was to have received one of the world's great literary honors-the Nobel Prize. The elaborate ceremonies, honoring, among others, three Soviet scientists, were bound to be dominated by the man who was not there. According to a terse speech, prepared weeks ago, by Anders Osterling, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Boris Pasternak was chosen because of his "important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition. Mr. Pasternak informed us that he does not wish to accept the prize. In view...
Secretary Anders Oesterling of the Royal Swedish Academy paid tribute to Pasternak, the author of the anti-Communist novel "Doctor Zhivago" who was forced by Soviet pressure to turn down the literature prize...