Boris Pasternak

Standard Name: Pasternak, Boris

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence	Bessie Head	The title in fact echoes that of her first novel, since in Setswana it means clouds, weather, or the elements. Eilenberg believes that roots of this story lie in BH 's erotic involvement, during her...
politics	Anna Akhmatova	During the years 1936-41 Russia was swamped by raging arrests and executions; millions were sent to concentration camps. AA lost many of her contemporaries and dear friends. Amid fear and desperation, her Muse, suppressed by...
Textual Production	Anna Akhmatova	With considerable bravery, Pasternak too wrote to Stalin on the same day to support her request. Feinstein, Elaine. Anna of all the Russias: The Life of Anna Akhmatova. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005. 151

Timeline

By mid August 1958

The novel Doctor Zhivago by Russian writer Boris Pasternak was published in English. It had first reached print in Italian in 1957 and was not to appear in the Soviet Union until 1987, though it...

December 1958

Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He initially accepted the prize, but was quickly forced by the Soviet government to decline it.

Nobel Prize in Literature. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/.

1962

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the first of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's novels about the Soviet Russian system of forced-labour camps, was published in the cautiously reform-minded journal Novy Mir.

Fitzpatrick, Sheila. “Like a Thunderbolt”. London Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 17, 11 Sept. 2008, pp. 13-15.

13-14

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