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Zhivago's secret journey : from typescript to book / Paolo Mancosu.
LIBRA PG3476.P27 M36 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mancosu, Paolo, author.
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 670.
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 670
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doktor Zhivago--Criticism, Textual.
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich.
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960--Manuscripts.
- Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960.
- Russian literature--Publishing--Political aspects.
- Russian literature.
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- United States.
- Russian literature--Publishing.
- Manuscripts.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2016.
- Summary:
- The Mysterious Journey of Doctor Zhivago, This book reveals the secret history of the typescripts of Doctor Zhivago that Boris Pasternak sent outside the Soviet Union and the network of contacts that transformed them into the Russian editors published in the West and translations in other foreign languages. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1. Early smugglings
- 2. D'Angelo and Feltrinelli
- 3. The Polish harbinger
- 4. Berlin, Katkov, and Collins publishers
- 5. Doctor Zhivago arrives in Oxford
- 6. The novel makes the rounds
- 7. November 1956 : the Hungarian watershed
- 8. Hélène Peltier
- 9. Pasternak's ruse
- 10. Pasternak, Soca, and Helene Peltier
- 11. Katkov and Peltier
- 12. Gallimard and de Proyart
- 13. Publication in Poland, Italy, France, England, and the United States
- 14. The Mouton edition of the Russian text
- 15. The CIA, MI6, and the origin of the microfilm received by the CIA
- 16. A comparative analysis of the typescripts with the Mouton edition
- 17. The Russian text and the BBC broadcasting
- 18. Whodunnit?
- Documentary appendix.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-261) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817919641
- 0817919643
- OCLC:
- 950054527
- Publisher Number:
- 99968704973
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