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8vo. Original green boards with iconic dust jacket illustrated by Ampelio Tettamanti; an excellent, fresh copy.First edition in the original Russian of Pasternak's beloved modern classic, in which he tells the tragic story of the physician and poet Yuri Zhivago during and after the Russian Revolution. After the controversial work was finished in 1956, it was opposed by Soviet censors as anti-Marxist and rejected for publication. Feltrinelli smuggled the manuscript to Italy and simultaneously published this edition and an Italian translation.
Pasternak (1890-1960) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 for Doctor Zhivago, but under pressure from Soviet authorities he did not accept it. The celebrated work was not officially published in Russia until 1988, though a number of samizdat copies were made.