A Captive of Time : My Years with Pasternak: The Memoirs of Olga Ivinskaya

London England: Collins and Harville Press, 1978. Hardback.price clipped d/jTranslated from the Russian with Introduction and Notes by Max Hayward. For the last fourteen years of Boris Pasternak's life - the crucial period during which he wrote Doctor Zhivago - Olga Ivinskaya was his closed compantion. She helped him in his work, and represented him in his dealings with publishers, the Soviet authorities, and the outside world in general. The author was twice imprisoned in a forced labour camp - first from 1949 to 1953, and a second time after Pasternak's death from 1960 to 1964. After her return from her second imprisonment, she began to write this book, which was completed in 1972. This book, apart from giving an intimate picture of Pasternak in his later years, will bring home to readers in the West, as very few other books have done, what it was like to live in Moscow during the final demented stages of Stalin's rule, and then in the anxious, uncertain times that followed under his successor, Nikita Khrusshchev. Illustrated. 488 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.