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L'affaire Jivago : le Kremlin, la CIA et la bataille pour un livre interdit

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ISBN
9780307908001
Book Title
Zhivago Affair : the Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
Item Length
9.5in
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year
2014
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.3in
Author
Peter Finn, Petra Couvée
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Political Science
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Books & Reading
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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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 Couve 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.)

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307908003
ISBN-13
9780307908001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172368977

Product Key Features

Book Title
Zhivago Affair : the Kremlin, the Cia, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
Author
Peter Finn, Petra Couvée
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Intelligence & Espionage, International Relations / General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Pg3476.P27d6837 2014
Reviews
"With ground-breaking reporting and character-rich storytelling, Peter Finn and Petra Couvée uncover the high-stakes drama behind one of the Cold War's strangest turning-points. Passionately written, acutely aware of the historical context, The Zhivago Affair almost makes one nostalgic for a time when novels were so important that even the CIA cared about them." --Ken Kalfus, author of A Disorder Peculiar to the Country , finalist for the 2006 National Book Award "A thrilling literary espionage yarn, but much more than that. Drawing on secret records from the Kremlin, the CIA, and a visionary Italian publisher, Finn and Couvée piece together the story behind the publication of one of the great novels of the 20th century. In the process, they shed new light on the Cold War struggle for the hearts and minds of millions of people, introducing a cast of characters--poets and spies, idealists and cynics, politicians and dissidents--who could have stepped out of the pages of Doctor Zhivago itself." --Michael Dobbs, author of Six Months in 1945: From World War to Cold War  " The Zhivago Affair is a sparkling and fascinating account of how one of the most important novels of the 20th century found its way back to Russia, a juggernaut of truth thrust into the Soviet darkness. Peter Finn and Petra Couvée elegantly and authoritatively capture Pasternak's brilliance, the courage of his friends, and the CIA's hidden role in bringing the forbidden book to Russian readers." --David E. Hoffman, author of The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy , winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize "This is the most detailed account to date of the events that suddenly placed one of Russia's greatest poets in the center of the struggle between Soviet and Western propaganda machines at the height of the Cold War. Pasternak's personal courage in the face of this totally incongruous conflict is the quality that emerges most clearly from this well-paced narrative, which is especially commendable for its avoidance of all romantic exaggeration--a quality Pasternak himself strove for in Doctor Zhivago . The book is of great relevance today, when such conflicts seem (but only seem) to have disappeared." --Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, translators of Doctor Zhivago (2010)
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2013-033875
Dewey Decimal
891.73/42
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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    I am going to quote Ken Kalfus's review of the book: "The Zhivago Affair almost makes me nostalgic for a time when novels were so important that even the CIA cared about them." Me too. I am a retired educator and I cannot believe the education I am getting in retirement by reading books like this one. Who knew?

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