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...million TV offer and which it is about to release for a seventh round of movie-house showings. Meanwhile, MGM has negotiated a $52,800,000 deal with CBS-TV to make new feature-length films, is successful at the box office with its big-screen spectaculars, including Dr. Zhivago and the high-grossing The Dirty Dozen...
When Svetlana Alliluyeva was on her way to Switzerland from India in March, someone gave her a copy of Doctor Zhivago in Russian. It was, she is sure, no coincidence, but an act of fate. Soon immersed in the book, which is banned in Russia, she found that it affected her like "a squall of rain and snow, like an avalanche, like a hurricane." Suffused with Pasternak's lan guage and imagery, she sat down and wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last...
...Prince." Stalin's daughter was powerfully struck by Zhivago mostly because she kept finding mystical parallels: between her own children and the book's young people, between her second husband ("whom I did not love") and the cold, mechanical commissar, and above all between herself and the doctor. "The Russia I have lost," she writes, "the Russia that has been taken from me by a cruel fate, as she was taken from Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago . . . wolves howl on your snow-covered plains, the land is still prey to folly and desolation, and there...
...Heads in the Kremlin also suffer pains whenever Moskva or Novy Mir, the leading journal in the liberal upsurge, comes out on the stands. The most recent issue of Novy Mir is running a memoir by Boris Pasternak, whose work has been suspect ever since he allowed his Doctor Zhivago to be published in the West (where it ultimately sold 4,500,000 copies). The sketch relates how Pasternak once wrote to Stalin with sarcastic thanks for sparing him the same official adulation accorded Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving him from "blowing...
...West. The debate between liberals and dogmatists will intensify as the time approaches for next month's Fourth Congress of Soviet Writers-the first conclave of its kind in eight years. As for Tvardovsky, he still hopes to succeed in an ambitious new project: publication of Doctor Zhivago in Russia for the first time...