Boris Pasternak
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| Original Title: | Доктор Живаго |
| ISBN: | 0679774386 (ISBN13: 9780679774389) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Gordon, Zjivago, Gromeko, Markel, Antipov, Guichard, Komarovski, Kologrivov, Tiverzin, Galioellin, Vledjenjapin, Doedorov, Djamina |
| Setting: | Moscow(Russian Federation) Yuriatin(Russian Federation) U.S.S.R. …more Russia …less |
| Literary Awards: | Premio Bancarella (1958) |
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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 featured in the novel.Declare Appertaining To Books Doctor Zhivago
| Title | : | Doctor Zhivago |
| Author | : | Boris Pasternak |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 592 pages |
| Published | : | March 18th 1997 by Pantheon (first published November 1957) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Paranormal Romance. Paranormal. Vampires. Fantasy |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 76064 Users | 2921 ReviewsArticle Appertaining To Books Doctor Zhivago
This is going to be a difficult review to write as I have developed a real love-hate relationship with this book. It is an epic story about a man, who is supposed to be this tragic hero separated from the women he loved by the cruel times of revolution and civil war. If you ask me, he was just a (fill in with your favourite word for describing a man with commitment and fidelity issues). I guess we can interpret the whole storyline as a metaphor of that period of Russian history, in which caseThis book sapped all my energy, it was deathly dull. I thought about writing a review, but have already wasted far too long on the mind-numbing Yuri. Awful, just awful.Buddy-slog with Jemidar; couldn't have done it without you!
A novel such as this one places me in front of the mirror of my own literary ambition and by looking at me with sincerity and without concession, I can only admit that I am still very far from possessing that maturity of mind that would really criticize it. With humility, I recognize that this novel, written by a Nobel laureate of literature, is a superb novel, a great novel. I only regret that I do not yet have the capacity to appreciate it entirely as such.The film adaptation of David Lean has
I have researched Russian history, especially the Russian Revolution. Russia deserved a revolution. The serfs were mistreated slaves. I have read many biographies of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas and Alexandra. The Russian people had a love/hate relationship with the tzars. And yet they traded those oppressors for communist oppressors. Stalin was much worse than any Tzar.This story takes place during the revolution when everything was completely turned upside down. Yuri and
The forest does not change its place, we cannot lie in wait for it and catch it in the act of change. Whenever we look at it, it seems to be motionless. And such also is the immobility to our eyes of the eternally growing, ceaselessly changing history, the life of society moving invisibly in its incessant transformations."Doctor Zhivago is about nothing, if not about change, transformation, upheaval and survival. Set against the background of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Doctor
I sometimes stroke my copy of Doctor Zhivago gently. I doubt I will find time to reread it soon, but it is one of those books I like to think I will read again, some day, even though it is written into my heart already, and has stayed there firmly ever since it first entered it decades ago. Is it better than any other of the "masterpieces of world literature"? Probably not. But it is something deeply, deeply personal. Something that affects the human core of the reader beyond any compassion for
Before finally reading this novel, I had watched the 1965 movie adaptation starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie many many times. By way of simple comparison, the movie captured very well the spontaneous passion of a brief love affair between physician/poet Yuri and his lover Lara, whereas the book dealt in much greater depth the tumultuous factional warfare incidents between the First Russian Revolution (1905) and the Russian Civil War (1917 1922), and their deleterious impact on everyday
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