Zhivago's secret journey : from typescript to book / Paolo Mancosu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mancosu, Paolo, author.

Series:

Hoover Institution Press publication ; Number 670.

Hoover Institution Press Publication ; Number 670

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian literature--Publishing--Political aspects.

Russian literature.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

United States.

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. Doktor Zhivago--Criticism, Textual.

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich.

Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960--Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2016.

Summary:

Paolo Mancosu continues an investigation he began in his 2013 book Inside the Zhivago Storm, which the New York Book Review of Books described as "a tour de force of literary detection worthy of a scholarly Sherlock Holmes". In this book Mancosu extends his detective work by reconstructing the network of contacts that helped Pasternak smuggle the typescripts of Doctor Zhivago outside the Soviet Union and following the vicissitudes of the typescripts when they arrived in the West. Mancosu draws on a wealth of firsthand sources to piece together the long-standing mysteries surrounding the many different typescripts that played a role in the publication of Doctor Zhivago, thereby solving the problem of which typescript served as the basis of the first Russian edition: a pirate publication covertly orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He also offers a new perspective, aided by the recently declassified CIA documents, by narrowing the focus as to who might have passed the typescript to the CIA. In the process, Mancosu reveals details of events that were treated as top secret by all those involved, vividly recounting the history of the publication of Pasternak's epic work with all its human and political ramifications.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Archives; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; Gallery; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; Appendix; Document 1; Document 2; Document 3; Document 4; Document 5; Document 6; Document 7; Document 8; Document 9; Document 10; Document 11; Document 12; Document 13; Document 14; Document 15; Document 16; Document 17; Document 18

Document 19Document 20; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780817919665

081791966X

9780817919689

0817919686