1957 "Doctor Zhivago" was published

60 years ago, on November 15, 1957, the publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli published in Milan (in Italian translation) Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago. This was the first edition of the novel, for which Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature a year later.

In August 1957, Pasternak told the Italian Slavist Vittorio Strada that, under pressure from Soviet officials, he was forced to sign a telegram to stop the Italian publication. He asked to convey to Feltrinelli a request not to take into account any prohibitions on his part on the publication of the novel, "so that the book comes out at all costs." Feltrinelli was later expelled from the Italian Communist Party for publishing Doctor Zhivago.