Pasternak
Bo·ris Le·o·ni·do·vich [bawr-is, bohr-, bor-; Russian buh-ryeeslyi-uh-nyee-duh-vyich], /ˈbɔr ɪs, ˈboʊr-, ˈbɒr-; Russian bʌˈryis lyɪ ʌˈnyi də vyɪtʃ/, 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel Prize.
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“The Arts section is a brand that lives in people’s consciouses, but you can’t sell a product in that way,” Pasternak said.
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What did he write to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to Boris Pasternak, to Stephen Sondheim, to Aaron Copland?
The Perfect Book for Every Man in Your Life | Liesl Schillinger | December 20, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHow much of this is Pasternak's fault is hard to say, but in the 1958 these awkward passages were clear, smooth and unpretentious.
And Russia embraces him posthumously, an honor that Pasternak might have hoped for himself.
At its mediocre worst, a la Pasternak, this subgenre of betrayal lit can be whiny and self-indulgent.
British Dictionary definitions for Pasternak
/ (ˈpæstəˌnæk, Russian pəstɪrˈnak) /
Boris Leonidovich (baˈris lɪaˈnidəvitʃ). 1890–1960, Russian lyric poet, novelist, and translator, noted particularly for his novel of the Russian Revolution, Dr. Zhivago (1957). He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1958, but was forced to decline it
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