Pasternak

[ pas-ter-nak; Russian puh-styir-nahk ]

noun

1. Bo·ris Le·o·ni·do·vich [bawr, -is, bohr, -, bor, -, buh-, ryees, lyi-uh-, nyee, -d, uh, -vyich], 1890–1960, Russian poet, novelist, and translator: declined 1958 Nobel Prize.

Pasternak

/ ˈpæstəˌnæk; pəstɪrˈnak /

noun

1. PasternakBoris Leonidovich18901960MRussianWRITING: poetWRITING: novelistWRITING: translator Boris Leonidovich (baˈris lɪaˈnidəvitʃ). 1890–1960, Russian lyric poet, novelist, and translator, noted particularly for his novel of the Russian Revolution, Dr. Zhivago (1957). He was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1958, but was forced to decline it

Example Sentences

“The Arts section is a brand that lives in people’s consciouses, but you can’t sell a product in that way,” Pasternak said.

From Digiday

That same month the CIA rolled out its Pasternak-as-propaganda operation.

From The Daily Beast

What did he write to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, to Boris Pasternak, to Stephen Sondheim, to Aaron Copland?

From The Daily Beast

How much of this is Pasternak's fault is hard to say, but in the 1958 these awkward passages were clear, smooth and unpretentious.

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And Russia embraces him posthumously, an honor that Pasternak might have hoped for himself.

From The Daily Beast

At its mediocre worst, a la Pasternak, this subgenre of betrayal lit can be whiny and self-indulgent.

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