This original typescript for Boris Pasternak’s most famous novel, Doctor Zhivago, is estimated at £100,000-150,000 in the Forum Auctions sale on May 31.
An original typescript for Boris Pasternak’s most famous novel, Doctor Zhivago, with handwritten corrections by the author, has been consigned to the Forum Auctions sale in London on May 31.
The two-volume typescript at Forum is one of only six that left Russia before the novel was first published in 1957. It was sent to George Katkov, a Russian academic who became a lecturer at Oxford and met Pasternak when travelling to Moscow in 1956.
The author requested that Katkov assist in the English translation and publication of Doctor Zhivago.
Estimate £100,000-150,000.
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