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In an " eager fumbling manner " Pasternak explained that himself and Mandelstam each had a completely different philosophy about poetry.
Pasternak gave his lover a book of Petőfi with the inscription, " Petőfi served as a code in May and June 1947, and my close translations of his lyrics are an expression, adapted to the requirements of the text, of my feelings and thoughts for you and about you.
Pasternak asked Luisa Popova, a mutual friend, to tell Ivinskaya about his promise.
Ivinskaya was then taken to the Lubyanka Prison, where she refused to say anything incriminating about Pasternak.
Joe Pasternak who produced many of the early Deanna Durbin movies said about her :" Deanna's genius had to be unfolded, but it was hers and hers alone, always has been, always will be, and no one can take credit for discovering her.
About that same time, his first articles were published about cultural life in the Soviet Union in the Newspaper “ Rudé Právo .” He also became one of the first translators of contemporary Russian literature into the Czech language and translated works by Boris Pasternak, Vladimir Lugovskoy and Marina Tsvetaeva.
Vienna forgave him, but Dredd, to ensure her future safety, vowed to see her less often in the future and asked her guardian, Mrs. Pasternak, to ensure that the girl would forget him rather than risk the heartbreak of her hearing about his death on the streets of Mega-City One, or be taken hostage again.

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Pasternak later did write and send just such a letter.
According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak continued to receive such letters for the remainder of his life.
In The Oak and the Calf, Alexander Solzhenitsyn sharply criticized Pasternak, both for declining the Nobel Prize and for sending such a letter to Khrushchev.
Russian literature is known for such notable writers as Aleksandr Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Sholokhov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Varlam Shalamov.
Some 1930s writers, such as Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, and Nobel-prize winning Boris Pasternak with his novel Doctor Zhivago continued the classical tradition of Russian literature with little or no hope of being published.
She helped many aspiring talents and was acquainted with many leading figures of Russian and international culture, such as Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Boris Pasternak, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Kazimir Malevich, Sergei Paradjanov, Maya Plisetskaya, Rodion Shchedrin, Andrei Voznesensky, Yves St. Laurent and Pablo Picasso.
In December 1958 Time magazine praised the translation of Maria Dermoût's The Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year among several other iconic literary masterpieces such as: ' Breakfast at Tiffany ´ s ' by Truman Capote, ' Doctor Zhivago ' by Pasternak and ' Lolita ' by Nabokov.
Many famous people, such as Konstantin Stanislavsky, Anton Chekhov, Valery Bryusov, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Isaac Levitan, Pavel Tretyakov, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Vladimir Lenin, lived here.
While refusing to allow dissemination of Soviet literature exposing Stalinism ( writers such as Ilya Ehrenburg and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ), Romanian leaders took active part in the campaign against Boris Pasternak.
A member of the city's cultural elite, Baltrušaitis was a close friend and colleague of such famous Russian writers and artists as Anton Chekhov, Konstantin Bal ' mont, Valery Bryusov, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maksim Gorky, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Mikhail Vrubel, and Aleksandr Scriabin ; Boris Pasternak was the private home tutor of Baltrušaitis's children.
It explores the life of tenor Mario Lanza, and includes clips from six of the tenor's eight films, together with interviews with such Lanza associates and contemporaries as Anna Moffo, Kathryn Grayson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joe Pasternak, and Dorothy Kirsten, and the conductor Peter Herman Adler.

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Loew's theater presents `` Where The Boys Are '', an MGM picture produced by Joe Pasternak and directed by Henry Levin from a screenplay by George Wells.
According to Olga Ivinskaya, Pasternak was deeply upset by Mandelstam's arrest.
In October 1946, the married Pasternak met Olga Ivinskaya, a single mother employed by Novy Mir.
Deeply moved by her resemblance to his first love Ida Vysotskaya, Pasternak gave Ivinskaya several volumes of his poetry and literary translations.
In the evenings, Pasternak would phone and Volkova would signal by banging on the water pipe which connected their apartments.
According to Ivinskaya, Zinaida Pasternak was infuriated by her husband's infidelity.
In a subsequent letter to the daughter of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pasternak explained that the attack was motivated by the fact that the supernatural elements of the play, which Novy Mir considered, " irrational ," had been translated as Goethe had written them.
Soon after, Pasternak and Ivinskaya arranged for Doctor Zhivago to be smuggled abroad by Sir Isaiah Berlin.
On 9 September 1958, the Literary Gazette critic Viktor Pertsov retaliated by denouncing, " the decadent religious poetry of Pasternak, which reeks of mothballs from the Symbolist suitcase of 1908-10 manufacture.
As a result, Pasternak sent a second telegram to the Nobel Committee: " In view of the meaning given the award by the society in which I live, I must renounce this undeserved distinction which has been conferred on me.
Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Between May and August 1900, a second journey to Russia, accompanied only by Lou, again took him to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he met the family of Boris Pasternak and Spiridon Drozhzhin, a peasant poet.
* ( 1956 ) In Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, the main character contracts epidemic typhus in the winter following the Russian Revolution, while living in Moscow.
By contrast, Korol Lir has been praised, for example by critic Anikst Alexander, for the " serious, deeply thoughtful " even " philosophical approach " of director Grigori Kozintsev and writer Boris Pasternak.
The film, based on a novel by Boris Pasternak, tells the story of a physician and poet ( Omar Sharif ) who falls in love with an unavailable woman named Lara ( Julie Christie ) and struggles to be with her in the chaos of the revolution and subsequent Russian Civil War.
Her last film of the year was David Lean's Doctor Zhivago, adapted from the epic / romance novel by Boris Pasternak.
Lowell followed Life Studies with Imitations ( 1961 ), a volume of loose translations of poems by classical and modern European poets, including Rilke, Montale, Baudelaire, Pasternak, and Rimbaud, for which he received the 1962 Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize.
Yiddish theaters and newspapers were promptly shut down, books by some Jewish authors ( including Eduard Bagritsky, Vasily Grossman, Mikhail Svetlov, Iosif Utkin, Boris Pasternak and others ) were seized from libraries.
It was directed by Richard Thorpe and produced by Joe Pasternak with Jesse L. Lasky as associate producer from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and William Ludwig.

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As the 1920s wore on, however, Pasternak increasingly felt that his colourful style was at odds with an increasingly less educated readership.
In a letter to his sister Josephine, Pasternak wrote of his intentions to, " break off relations ," with both of them.
Although he expressed that it would be deeply painful, Pasternak explained that it could not be prevented.
By 1932, Pasternak had strikingly reshaped his style to make it acceptable to the Soviet public and printed the new collection of poems aptly titled The Second Birth.
This prompted his former admirer, Vladimir Nabokov, to mock Pasternak as a " weeping Bolshevik " and " Emily Dickinson in trousers.
After Joseph Stalin was acclaimed as leader of the CPSU in 1929, Pasternak became further disillusioned with the Party's tightening censorship of literature.
Still unwilling to conform, Pasternak remained a close friend of Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam.
Mandelstam recited his searing indictment of Stalin, the Stalin Epigram, to Pasternak soon after its composition in late April 1934.
After listening, Pasternak told Mandelstam, " I didn't hear this, you didn't recite it to me, because, you know, very strange and terrible things are happening now: they've begun to pick people up.
Devastated, Pasternak went immediately to the offices of Izvestia and begged Nikolai Bukharin to intercede on Mandelstam's behalf.
Ivinskaya writes that Pasternak " raced frantically all over town, telling everybody that he was not to blame and denying responsibility for Mandelstam's disappearance, which for some reason he thought might be laid at his door.
" According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak was struck dumb.
Flustered, Pasternak denied that there was any discussion or that there were any literary circles left in Soviet Russia.
Years later, Pasternak recalled that he was horrified at how the conversation had ended.
Instead, Pasternak was told, " Comrade Stalin is busy.
" Pasternak became frantic, pacing around his apartment repeating over and over that he must write to Stalin to explain what he had meant and to also say that injustices were being committed in the name of the Leader.
According to Pasternak, during the 1937 show trial of General Iona Yakir and Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, the Union of Soviet Writers requested all members to add their names to a statement supporting the death penalty for the defendants.
The leadership of the Union travelled to Peredelkino and severely threatened Pasternak, who refused to sign the statement and returning to his dacha.
Upon his arrival there, his pregnant second wife, Zinaida Pasternak threw herself on the floor, weeping and accusing her husband of risking the destruction of their family.
Pasternak, however, still would not be moved and went to bed.
Soon after, Pasternak appealed directly to Stalin.

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