Apie Pasternaką, galbūt, vertėtų čia kiek daugiau pasakyti. Pasternakas buvo žymus, labai žymus rusų poetas, kuris buvo oficialiai spausdinamas. Bet be to, ką jis oficialiai spausdino, jis dar parašė romaną "Daktaras Živago", pagal kurį vėliau buvo ir filmas padarytas Vakaruose. Ir to "Daktaro Živago" Rusijoje nebuvo įmanoma išspausdinti, kadangi jis buvo aiškiai ne tarybinis, netgi antitarybinis. 58-ais metais jį išspausdino Vakaruose. Jis turėjo didelį pasisekimą, jį išertė į visas kalbas ir Pasternakas gavo Nobelio premiją. Jis buvo spaudžiamas nepriimti tos premijos, jis jos atsisakė. Bijojo, kad jeigu jis išvyks į Stokholmą premijos atsiimti, jo nebeįleis atgal. O Maskvoje, Rusijoj, liko jam artimi žmonės, kurių jis nenorėjo palikti tarybų valdžios malonėj, todėl ir pats liko Rusijoje. Bet buvo persekiojamas, plūstamas per spaudą, ir pašalintas iš Rašytojų sąjungos ir taip toliau, ir taip toliau. Ir po dviejų metų tokio sunkaus gyvenimo jis mirė. Mirė vėžiu 1960-ais metais.
It would probably be worthwhile to say somewhat more about Pasternak here. Pasternak was a famous, very famous Russian poet who was officially published. But besides what he had published officially, he also wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago which was made into a film in the West later. It was impossible to have Doctor Zhivago published in Russian since it clearly was not a Soviet work and could even be called an anti-Soviet one. It was published in the West in '58. It was a great success, it was translated into every language and [Boris] Pasternak received the Nobel Prize. He was put under pressure not to accept the prize, and he turned it down. He was afraid that if he went to Stockholm to receive the prize he wouldn’t be allowed to return. And in Moscow, in Russian there were people who were dear to him whom he didn’t want to leave to the mercy of the Soviet government, and that’s why he stayed in Russia. But he was persecuted, reviled in the press, and expelled from the writers’ union and so on and so on. And after another two such difficult years in his life, he died. He died of cancer in 1960.
