PASTERNAK BORIS (1890-1960) Doctor Zhivago. Milan: Ed. Feltrinelli, 1957.

566, [1] p.; 22x14.3 cm. Publisher's cardboard binding with embossing on the spine and upper cover; without a dust jacket. Only 300 copies were bound, the rest were released in a publisher's cover. The third edition in the Russian language, although it can be considered the second, since the Dutch edition (August 24, 1958), printed in a small print run, was pirated. "Doctor Zhivago" is B. Pasternak's final work. The novel caught the interest of the largest publisher in Italy, G. Feltrinelli. In November 1957, the book was released in Italian in Milan, and soon G. Feltrinelli published the Russian edition, securing the author's rights worldwide, except in the USSR. This novel brought B. Pasternak global fame and the Nobel Prize, the awarding of which turned into political persecution for the poet, accused of "betraying the Motherland." In two years, the novel was translated into 24 languages.