Word: zhivago
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago was smuggled out of the Soviet Union, some of Russia's best writing has been published only in the West. Despite its liberalization since Stalin's death, Russia remains full of talented, frustrated authors who are denied an audience in their own country and hunger to be read. Publication abroad can lead straight to prison-as it did for Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who in 1966 were sentenced to seven-and five-year terms for allowing their biting satirical novels to escape across the border...
...single-story, soot-stained building on the industrial outskirts of Frankfurt, West Germany. From the presses within has come in recent years an irregular, handset journal, Grani (Facets), containing some of the major finds of contemporary Soviet letters. Among them: poems from Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago in 1956, a year before the novel appeared in the West, and a transcript of the 1966 Sinyavsky-Daniel trial. Grani also printed excerpts from the now-famous memoirs of Eugenia Ginzburg, Journey into the Whirlwind (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967), an account of life under Stalinist terror...
...stratum of burly menace seems to underlie all his performances, there is uncommon variety in his characterizations. His recent range includes an evocation of Pope John XXIII in the semidocumentary And There Came a Man; Mr. Joyboy, the simpering mortician of The Loved One; the lascivious Komarovsky in Doctor Zhivago; and his favorite role, the guilt-racked Nazerman in The Pawnbroker...
...interesting that we have to ask the series of questions: When is death, what is death, what is life? It is self-evident that there is no simple answer to what life is. Quoting Dr. Zhivago as saying that we live solely in others, one can submit that life is the ability to communicate with others...
This, of course, is not the first book to explore the camps or dig into the new subcellars that were constructed under the Lower Depths. It occupies a place on the same shelf as Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and Lydia Chukovskaya's The Deserted House, another homefront view of the purges recently published in the U.S. But since Mrs. Ginzburg's book is a work of nonfiction, an intensely...