Boris Pasternak, celebrated Russian poet and author of Doctor Zhivago, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, is the protagonist of Ismail Kadare’s A Dictator Calls. Incidentally, Pasternak’s tale of an individual’s struggle between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II was shunned in the USSR for being... read full story
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