A Captive of Time

She is "Lara"--Boris Pasternak's model for the unforgettable heroine of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO. She shared the last fourteen years of Pasternak's life, and he immortalized her in the crowning work of his brilliant, turbulent career.Now Olga Ivinskaya tells the remarkable story of their time and their love together.In a memoir filled with unprecedented insights into the man and his work, she offers the first detailed account of the systematic harassment suffered by Pasternak and those close to him at the hands of the Russian bureaucracy. She recounts the much misunderstood events surrounding his refusal of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1958.Here is the intimate portrait of an extraordinary romance, which flourished amid the intrigues and repressions of postwar Russia.When Pasternak met Olga in 1946 she was thirty-four, a widow, working for the monthly literary journal NOVY MIR. He was fifty-six, a world-famous poet, married to another woman, and out of favor with the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin. Olga's love for the dissident writer would earn her, before and after Pasternak's death, twelve years of prison sentences--many of them served in brutal work camps.But through all their trials and struggles, Olga Ivinskaya managed to support and inspire the man she loved--typing his manuscripts, handling his literary affairs, collaborating on numerous translation projects. And this book is finally the record of a triumph--not only an authentic document of daily life in Russia under Stalin and Khrushchev, but also one of the truly great love stories of all time.