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Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak, John Bayley, Manya Harari, Max Hayward
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This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller. Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing in the novel.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780679774389
ISBN10 0679774386
Series/Work OL258301W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Pantheon
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

1917-1921 958 audio-books Books Children's fiction Classic Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author) Czar Nicholas II Didactic fiction e-books English language Epic literature Fiction Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Fiction, political Foreign speakers freedom Hardcovers Histoire

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