In 1958, Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book was immediately re-translated into many languages and became a world-wide sensation. So in 1957 Pasternak finally allowed a manuscript (including the poems, published as an appendix to the book) to be smuggled out of the country and published in Italian translation. The first appearance of any material from the book was in 1954, during a brief period of political liberalization after Stalin’s death, when ten poems “by” the eponymous main character (whose poetry plays an important role in the events of the novel) were published in a Russian journal.Įven under Stalin’s successor Khrushchev there was still no realistic hope of publishing the entire book. Pasternak wrote the book in the decade following WWII, during the final decade of Stalin’s rule. Zhivago, a sprawling story of the interlocking lives of people caught up in great historical events of the first part of the 20th century in Russia, is dramatic and well-known. The publication history of Boris Pasternak’s famous novel Dr. 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony.
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