Olga Ivinskaia (1912–1995)
Auteur van Gevangene van de tijd mijn leven met Boris Pasternak
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- Officiële naam
- Ivinskaya, Olga Vsevolodovna
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Ивинская, Ольга Всеволодовна
- Geboortedatum
- 1912-06-16
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1995-09-08
- Graflocatie
- Cimetière de Peredelkino, Russie (25 km de Moscou)
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Russia
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Russie
- Geboorteplaats
- Tambov, Russian Empire
- Plaats van overlijden
- Moscow, Russia
- Woonplaatsen
- Moscow, Russia
- Opleiding
- Editorial Workers Institute, Moscow, Russia
- Beroepen
- poet
writer
memoirist
translator - Relaties
- Pasternak, Boris (lover)
- Korte biografie
- Olga Ivinskaia was a Russian poet and writer. She translated poetry from several other languages into Russian. A friend and lover of fellow writer Boris Pasternak, Olga was the inspiration for the character of Lara in his novel Doctor Zhivago (1957). She suffered greatly under the Soviet authorities for her liaison with Pasternak. After his death in 1960, she was arrested for the second time, with her daughter Irina, and served another term of four years in the gulag. Her memoirs were published in Paris in Russian in 1978 and were translated into English under the title A Captive of Time.
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I made a few notes on particular subjects and events she mentions:
About P’s relation to Stalin: She quotes Ehrenburg: ‘Why did Stalin not touch Pasternak, who maintained his independence, while he destroyed Koltsov*, who dutifully did everything he was asked to do?’; and BL once describing Stalin as a ‘giant of the pre-Christian era.’ [deciding like a Roman emperor over life and death of his subjects] (144+Note 21). - She writes: ‘I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was a remarkable, silent duel.’ (145) - She judges ‘P’s feelings about Stalin to be extremely complex and contradictory’ and notes that he himself compares (indirectly) Shigalevism** to Stalinism. (155+Note 23)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Koltsov
** after Shigalev in The Possessed / Demons
She discusses his relationships to the poets Akhmatova, Yevtushenko, Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetayeva and writes that ‘Doctor Zhivago is an autobiography - concerned not with the externals of the author’s life, but with his spiritual history.’ (197)
About the publication of Doctor Zhivago by Feltrinelli in Nov. 1957 and the reaction in the USSR: after a long silence first condemnations that grew to a witch hunt two days after the announcement of the Nobel Literature prize award 23 Oct. 1958. P was expelled from the Writers Union because - as she writes - ‘he had broken the rule that requires you to ignore realities and usurped the right, claimed by the rulers for themselves alone, to have an opinion, to speak and think one’s own thoughts.’ (243) A detailed account of the Oct. 31 general meeting of the writers of Moscow (‘Manikins and Men’, 271-289), …
Fascinating the account of her chance meeting on a train and night-long discussion with Rostropovich without being introduced or introducing each other (in the early seventies, 261ff).
Additional material included in this english edition: Max Hayward wrote an introduction outlining the life of Pasternak up to 1946 when he and Olga met, also Notes and Comments and a Biographical guide to the many persons she mentions. Sources of quotations and an Index are provided.
Having learned in detail about the origins of and reactions to Doctor Zhivago - and from the person who inspired Lara - I will read the novel again. (IV-22) 5*… (meer)