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Title: Sergio d'Angelo papers
Date (inclusive): 1957-2015
Collection Number: 2015C14
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Italian, Russian, English, French, and German
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, and printed matter relating to the Russian writer Boris Pasternak and especially to the circumstances
of the publication of Pasternak's novel
Doctor Zhivago.
Creator:
D'Angelo, Sergio, 1922-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.
[Identification of item], Sergio d'Angelo papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Sergio d'Angelo is a former Italian journalist and acquaintance of Boris Pasternak. He worked as an editor and reporter for
Radio Moscow from 1956-1957. On May 20, 1956, after meeting with Pasternak, d'Angelo was given the manuscript for
Doctor Zhivago, which was later given to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli for publication.
In the late 1960s, d'Angelo was involved in legal battles regarding royalties from the novel. He also published a memoir about
his role in the publication of
Doctor Zhivago in 2006, entitled,
Il Caso Pasternak or
The Pasternak Case: Memoirs of a Witness.
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, correspondence, and printed matter relating to the Russian writer Boris Pasternak and especially to the circumstances
of the publication of Pasternak's novel
Doctor Zhivago.
Material is not arranged into series, but has been kept in the original order of the creator. Most of the original file names
have been maintained and are indicated with quotation marks.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russian literature
Dissenters -- Soviet Union
Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960