Years with Boris Pasternak, or Prisoner of Time

Olga Ivinskaya, the long-time lover of Nobel Prize laureate Boris Pasternak, and the prototype of Lara in Doctor Zhivago, shares with readers her turbulent and difficult love story with the famous Russian writer.
But not only that...
The memoir provides an excellent picture of the writer's complicated life in Stalinist Russia, sheds light on the trials of the Russian intellectual elite of that time, and the reasons behind the writing and reception of Doctor Zhivago.

Original title: Years with Boris Pasternak: in the grip of time

Keywords:
writers
translators
women
couple relationships
love
creation
reception