1958 book Doctor Zhivago by PASTERNAK, Danish text, half leather binding,

Description: This is Doctor Zivago by Boris Pasternak, translated into Danish from the original Russian by Ivan Malinovsky. Published by Gyldendals in half-leather binding, (c)1957, 1958. This is an early Danish printing of this modern classic, which tells the tragic story of the medical doctor and poet, Yuri Zhivago, in the years during the Russian Revolution. Though begun several decades earlier, the work was completed in 1956, and was submitted for publication to the journal "Novij Mir" the same year, but due to the controversial contents of the work and the Soviet government's dislike of Pasternak, it was rejected. The following year the manuscript was smuggled out of the Soviet Union by the Italian publisher Feltrinelli, who published the book in Russian in Milan in 1957. Already the following year numerous European translations of the work had been made, amongst these the Danish one, though the English and Italian ones appeared as the first. These immediate translations and the publications of them partly caused Pasternak being awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958. Due to the immense popularity of the work, all the European translations were reprinted numerous times. Please see photos for more on contents and condition. Half leather binding has some shelf wear. Paper part of cover has some damp stains and a ring stain. Gilt lettering and bands on leather spine is bright. A name was whited out at start of book. Pages are otherwise clean, starting to tone, with good binding.Thanks for looking !r171

Price: 125 USD

Location: Athens, Georgia

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