New Investigations on Boris Pasternak and the Doctor Zhivago Saga
by Rikke From and Greyson Young
On Thursday, October 3, IES and ISEES were pleased to welcome Professor Paolo Mancosu for a lecture based on his breakthrough study of Russian Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak. Mancosu’s lecture, titled “Moscow Has Ears Everywhere: Olga Ivinskaya and the loss of Pasternak’s 'Will',” centered on Soviet resistance to Pasternak for engaging with Western writers and publishers in order to secure the publication of his 1955 novel Doctor Zhivago, which was primarily distributed in Western Europe.