FW: Book on Pasternak, Zhivago drawing on Feltrinelli archives

[Andrew Jameson]

I am delighted to inform you that my book "Inside the Zhivago Storm. The
editorial adventures of Pasternak's masterpiece" (Feltrinelli, Milano, 2013)
is now out. You can peek inside the book by going to 
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Zhivago-Storm-Masterpiece-Quarantasettesimo-ebo
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Some of the documents contained in the third part of the volume are
published in the original Russian with English translation.
The book is available from Feltrinelli at EURO 34,00 and the ebook from
amazon.

Doctor Zhivago, the masterpiece that won Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize in
1958, had its first worldwide edition in 1957 in Italian. The events
surrounding its publication, whose protagonists were Boris Pasternak and the
publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, undoubdtedly count as one of the most
fascinating stories of the twentieth century. It is a story that saw the
involvement of governments, political parties, secret services, and
publishers.
               In Inside the Zhivago Storm. The Editorial Adventures of
Pasternak's Masterpiece, Paolo Mancosu, Professor of Philosophy at the
University of California at Berkeley, provides a riveting account of the
story of the first publication of Doctor Zhivago and of the subsequent
Russian editions in the West. 
               Exploiting with scholarly and philological rigor the untapped
resources of the Feltrinelli archives in Milan as well as several other
private and public archives in Europe, Russia, and the USA, Mancosu
reconstructs the relationship between Pasternak and Feltrinelli, the story
of the Italian publication, and the pressure exercised on Feltrinelli by the
Soviets and the Italian Communist Party to stop publication of the novel in
Italy and in other countries. Situating the story in the historical context
of the Cold War, Mancosu describes the hidden roles of the KGB and the CIA
in the vicissitudes of the publication of the novel both in Italian and in
the original Russian language. The full correspondence between Boris
Pasternak and Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (spanning from 1956 to 1960) is also
published here for the first time in the original and in English
translation.
               Doctor Zhivago is a classic of world literature and the story
of its publication, as it is recounted in this book, is the story of the
courage and of the intellectual freedom of  a great writer and of a great
publisher.
Paolo Mancosu
Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-2390
USA

phone: +1.510.296-4325
fax: +1.510.642.4164
email: mancosu at socrates.berkeley.edu
url (dept.): http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/
url (me): http://philosophy.berkeley.edu/mancosu/ 

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