The Zhivago Affair
The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book. Nominiert: National Book Critics Circle Awards 2014
(Sprache: Englisch)
The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Gebunden)
25.49 €
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „The Zhivago Affair “
The dramatic, never-before-told story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
Klappentext zu „The Zhivago Affair “
Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the original manuscript of Pasternak's first and only novel, entrusted to him with these words: "This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world." Pasternak believed his novel was unlikely ever to be published in the Soviet Union, where the authorities regarded it as an irredeemable assault on the 1917 Revolution. But he thought it stood a chance in the West and, indeed, beginning in Italy, Doctor Zhivago was widely published in translation throughout the world.
From there the life of this extraordinary book entered the realm of the spy novel. The CIA, which recognized that the Cold War was above all an ideological battle, published a Russian-language edition of Doctor Zhivago and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. Copies were devoured in Moscow and Leningrad, sold on the black market, and passed surreptitiously from friend to friend. Pasternak's funeral in 1960 was attended by thousands of admirers who defied their government to bid him farewell. The example he set launched the great tradition of the writer-dissident in the Soviet Union.
In The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée bring us intimately close to this charming, passionate, and complex artist. First to obtain CIA files providing concrete proof of the agency's involvement, the authors give us a literary thriller that takes us back to a fascinating period of the Cold War-to a time when literature had the power to stir the world.
(With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.)
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Zhivago Affair “
ContentsPrologue
"This is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world."
Chapter 1
"The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off."
19
Chapter 2
"Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin."
31
Chapter 3
"I have arranged to meet you in a novel."
47
Chapter 4
"You are aware of the anti--Soviet nature of the novel?"
61
Chapter 5
"Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man."
75
Chapter 6
"Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture."
85
Chapter 7
"If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well, I must say we have a different view of it."
99
Chapter 8
"We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain."
115
Chapter 9
"We'll do it black."
129
Chapter 10
"He also looks the genius: raw nerves, misfortune, fatality."
147
Chapter 11
"There would be no mercy, that was clear."
161
Chapter 12
"Pasternak's name spells war."
179
Chapter 13
"I am lost like a beast in an enclosure."
197
Chapter 14
"A college weekend with Russians"
211
Chapter 15
"An unbearably blue sky"
227
Chapter 16
"It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published."
243
Afterword
263
Acknowledgments
267
A Note on Sources
271
Notes
275
Bibliography
323
Index
335
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Peter Finn , Petra Couvée
- 2014, 352 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16,1 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0307908003
- ISBN-13: 9780307908001
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.06.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
Kommentar zu "The Zhivago Affair"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „The Zhivago Affair“
Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The Zhivago Affair".
Kommentar verfassen