A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO #BORIS PASTERNAK-D CREATOR OF 'DR.ZHIVAGO'!
February 10th 2012 13:21
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THE CREATOR OF 'DR. ZHIVAGO'!
BORIS PASTERNAK- THE RUSSIAN AUTHOR WHOSE WORK 'DOCTOR ZHIVAGO' EARNED A PERMANENT PLACE IN THE WORLD LITERATURE!
TODAY IS THE BIRTHDAY OF BORIS PASTERNAK WHO WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL IN 1958,BUT,DUE TO HUGE PROTESTS FROM OTHER WRITERS IN RUSSIA,KGB CONSPIRED SMEAR CAMPAIGN AND VARIOUS THREATS COMPELLED BORIS TO CANCEL HIS TRIP TO STOCKHOLM!
PASTERNAK WAS A GENIUS WHO WAS ALSO A FIRST RATE TRANSLATOR AND A POET OF CONSIDERABLE EMINENCE!
HE WAS A CONTINUOUS 'USUAL-SUSPECT' FOR THE STALINIST REGIME N HAD TO SUFFER GREATLY IN TERMS OF OFFICIAL CENSORSHIP,KGB N OTHER SECRET-POLICE-ROUND THE CLOCK VIGILANCE. . .N OTHER COLLECTIVE AMNESIA!
IT HAD BEEN A GREEK-TRAGEDY IN COMMUNIST RUSSIA THAT THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT LAURELS N MADE RUSSIA POSITIVELY INFLUENCIAL WORLDWIDE, WERE EITHER 'GULAG-ED' OR TORTURED LIFELONG!
UNDER SUCH OPPRESSIVE CLOUDS,FOG N SMOG, TALENTS KEPT EMERGING ONE AFTER THE OTHER!ANNA AKHMATOVA,OSIP MANDALSTAM,IRINI TSVETYAVSKY,ALEXANDER SOLZHENSTYN N THE LIKES!
THE LITERARY-RUSSIA,UNLIKE THE POLITICAL ONE,HAS ALWAYS BEEN A FLAG BEARER FOR OTHER ARTISTS ACROSS THE GLOBE!
THE GREAT ROLES PLAYED BY BRITISH 'MI5' N AMERICAN 'CIA' IN TRANSLATING,SPREADING N PRESENTING BORIS PASTERNAK'S 'DOCTOR ZHIVAGO' TO D NOBEL COMMITTEE, SHALL BE A GREAT HONOR WHEN THE HISTORY OF SUCH OTHERWISE NOT SO LIKEABLE AGENCIES!
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO WAS BANNED INSIDE RUSSIA FOR ALMOST 3 DECADES ,BUT,PIRATED VERSIONS KEPT FLOODING N THERE HAS TILL RECENTLY BEEN MANY CINEMATIC ADAPTATIONS OF THE BOOK AROUND D WORLD.MANY SERIALS ON T.V. WERE MADE ON THE BOOK.
PASTERNAK'S MAGNUM-OPUS (DR. GHIVAGO) REMAINED IN THE TOP-LIST CHART OF THE 'NEW YORK TIMES' FOR 26 WEEKS WITHOUT A BREAK IN 1958!THAT WAS PASTERNAK!
A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BORIS!
MRITYUNJAY JHA
SAMASTIPUR
BIHAR
INDIA.
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