20 Apr 2011
7:00 PDT
Los Angeles
Manuscripts from the Estate of Charles Williamson & Tucker Fleming
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Manuscripts from the Estate of Charles Williamson & Tucker Fleming
Back to auction 19377
PASTERNAK, BORIS. 1890-1960.
PASTERNAK INTERVENES FOR A GROUP OF PERSECUTED WRITERS.
Autograph Letter Signed ("B. Pasternak") in Cyrillic, 1 p, 8vo, n.p., February 6, 1936, to Alexander Sergeevich Sherbakov, with autograph envelope, toned.
In full, translated: "Please do something to change the decision of the revision commission: it appears unfair to me and wrong not only in the case of E.N. Chebotarevskay—where it is scandalously obvious—but regarding others who were fired. Why destroy what was created under such hardship?" Brave letter written at a time of Stalinist purges. Babel, Mandelstam, and myriads of other writers lost their lives in this period. Most of Pasternak's writings were suppressed, and Doctor Zhivago was not published in the U.S.S.R. until 1987.
See illustration.
Autograph Letter Signed ("B. Pasternak") in Cyrillic, 1 p, 8vo, n.p., February 6, 1936, to Alexander Sergeevich Sherbakov, with autograph envelope, toned.
In full, translated: "Please do something to change the decision of the revision commission: it appears unfair to me and wrong not only in the case of E.N. Chebotarevskay—where it is scandalously obvious—but regarding others who were fired. Why destroy what was created under such hardship?" Brave letter written at a time of Stalinist purges. Babel, Mandelstam, and myriads of other writers lost their lives in this period. Most of Pasternak's writings were suppressed, and Doctor Zhivago was not published in the U.S.S.R. until 1987.
See illustration.
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US$ 3,660
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