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...Boris Pasternak for Doctor Zhivago-also, for his honesty and integrity, for his fearlessness and self-sacrifice. M. KOFFLER Brooklyn...
...Rules. When Stalin died, Pasternak wrote his novel Doctor Zhivago out of a passionate Christian conviction that salvation is possible only through the individual human spirit. He had shown that spirit in conflict with Soviet society, against which he had sharp things to say -but he had not written merely a political tract. Yet his message undercut the whole dogma of the socialist panacea, as Pasternak's Moscow editors worriedly said in their surprisingly mild 1956 letter of rejection, which was made public in Russia last fortnight...
...Artist's Fable. Without ever repudiating Doctor Zhivago-which, he repeated, had been published abroad without his authority-Pasternak expressed only regrets at the way in which some had interpreted it. "After the end of the week, when I saw the scope of the political campaign around my novel, I realized myself that this award was a political measure." His Soviet editors, wrote Pasternak, "warned me that the novel might be understood as a work directed against the October Revolution and the founders of the Soviet system. I did not realize this, and I now regret...
...Moscow editors in their letter of rejection, he added impenitently: "I cannot endorse such clumsy allegations," even though "I finally gave up the prize" because of them. He even managed, by pointing out that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize five years ago (long before Doctor Zhivago had been printed and read in the West), to signal to Pravda's readers his answer to the charge that the award was a purely political...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...