Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable Russian novel of the 20th century has been translated into 18 languages, but it is a book without a country. Last week its author, Novelist-Poet Boris Pasternak, 68, received the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature† for his lyric poetry and for Doctor Zhivago (TIME, Sept. 15), the novel about Russia's terrible years that no Russian may read...
Doctor Vitality. The cable might have been written by the fictional Doctor Zhivago himself, for it was touched with his vitality. Indeed, "vitality" is a loose translation for Zhivago, for Pasternak coined his hero's name from the Russian word for "alive." Love of life is at the heart of Pasternak's devastating indictment of the Communist regime. He believes that history is a shadow cast by man, not a bloodstained leash to drag him to future "social betterment." 'Says Doctor Zhivago: "Man is born to live, not to prepare for life . . . Life is never a material...
...Pasternak admits, Doctor Zhivago is "partly autobiographical." Like Zhivago, he grew up in a cultured home; Pasternak's father illustrated one of Tolstoy's novels. In the years immediately following the Russian Revolution, Boris Pasternak wrote symbolist poetry accented with vivid and highly personal imagery. Attacked as a "decadent formalist," he switched to translating, e.g., Shakespeare, Goethe. During the purge trials, he risked death by refusing to sign a denunciation of "traitors," but fellow writers covered up for his defection...
...Becoming the first Russian writer to win it since 1933, when Ivan Bunin received the award in self-exile in France...
...received the surrender of German forces at the end of World War II, he received the envoy of Marshal Rokossovsky, who wished to know his tastes before giving him a post-victory lunch? Which wines did he prefer? Montgomery was addicted to water. Cigars? He did not smoke. The Russian murmured that they had some women at headquarters available for VIPs. Monty was not interested: women were not his line...