In 1965, David Lean released Doctor Zhivago, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak. The film stars Omar Sharif in the ...

Boris Pasternak was born 124 years ago on this day. In honor of his birthday, here is Irving Howe's appraisal of the unique genius of Pasternak's best-known work, Doctor Zhivago. Doctor Zhivago, the ...

POEMS (194 pp.)—Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden—University of Michigan ($3.95). Translation is the customs office of poetry. Nothing is more difficult to smuggle into another language ...

Julie Christie remains as magnetic as ever in the mammoth big-screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel ...

Russia’s Channel One commissioned “The Crime of Boris Pasternak” from Svetlana Rezvushkina’s Lavr Film Studio, and then — giving no reason — refused to air it upon its completion. Was it because the ...

When Dr. Zhivago author Boris Pasternak died in 1960, Soviet authorities pointedly did not publicize his death. Hundreds attended his funeral in a rare show of protest against the Soviet regime. Dr.

What price love? Lara chronicles the horrifically steep costs for Olga Ivinskaya, Boris Pasternak's mistress, muse, and model for Yuri Zhivago's lover in Doctor Zhivago (alluringly played by Julie ...

IN A modest house not far from Moscow lives a gray-haired poet of sixty-eight by the name of Boris Pasternak. Visitors are struck by the serenity of his face, distinguished by high cheekbones and deep ...

In fall 1958, when Russian author Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, the Soviet regime unleashed a campaign of vilification against their native son so brutal that it drove ...

In March 1959, Ronald K. Jones had fallen hopelessly in love. He had invited to the formal spring dance the homecoming queen at the University of Oklahoma and, much to his surprise, she accepted.

Elderly ladies in lace jabots and stiffly polite gentlemen in somewhat frayed double-breasted black suits filled five small rooms in Munich’s Municipal Gallery. They were members of Munich’s large ...