Doctor Zhivago, the masterpiece that won Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize in 1958, had its first worldwide edition in 1957 in Italian. The events surrounding its publication, whose protagonists were Boris Pasternak and the publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, are a fascinating story of the twentieth century.

This talk will feature participation from Professors Irina Paperno and Harsha Ram, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, and Professor Diego Pirillo, Italian Studies Department.

Paolo Mancosu is author of Inside the Zhivago Storm: The editorial adventures of Pasternak’s masterpiece (Feltrinelli, 2013) and more. Read more at http://zhivagostorm.org. He is the William S. and Marion Slusser Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley.

Co-sponsored by the Italian Studies Department and the Slavic Languages and Literatures Department.