Recent content by psixonavt

Of course, Antony. As to others, Bunin and Brodsky - emigrants, Pasternac - "internal emigrant", Solzenitsyn-you know, Sholokhov - for a "political" balance, thus, one more polit.award). I'll say, that every russian Nobel prize was extremely politicized, but every russian laureat is worth of...

"First Edition in Russian [title page in Cyrillic:] Boris Leonidovich Pasternak/Doctor/Zhivago/A Novel/G Feltrinelli - Milan/1958. [actually:] [The Hague: Mouton, 1958]"

biondirarebooks.com/articles/zhivagoarticle.html "Feltrinelli allowed Mouton to go to press, but over his imprint. This edition of a few hundred copies was published on 24 August." [1958]

Yes, there is a rule, that the novel must be published "in it's native" language. Zhivagi was published in Italy, than in France and other countries- but in translation. "Somewho" "wanted" to publish it in original, and succeeded to get it's bad version of the text. It was published in...

OK, I've read it with Promt. Thank you for this link! Beh, what can we wait from them? Words like "Oh, we've studeied the archive, and found, that the award was extremely politicized, and all this story is very "yellow", and we're ashamed". :lol: Never! :lol:

I don't speak swedish... hope, I'll read it soon in translation. I don't understand, how they can explain this: they could not award him, because of missing a russian edition of the novel. So, there was prepared a "faked" edition in Netherlands - it was edited the draft version of the novel...

However, the awarding of Pamuk or Brodsky incontestably is a politic gesture, even if they are worth of this prize. The same story happened with other writers.

E-shops. 10-20 books at once.

Antony48, I think you are right 100%. But. But you arguments are :stars1: (It's better to remember other names here, Churchill, Dario Fo, - after them it's strange to dispute that the award is politicized) Look: Orkhan Pamuk IS well-known, enough to be a nobel-calibre. For example, you...