Doktor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

Overview

Doktor Zhivago - itogovoe proizvedenie Borisa Leonidovicha Pasternaka, pisavshijsja na protjazhenii desjati let, i prinesshij emu mirovuju izvestnost' i Nobelevskuju premiju, prisuzhdenie kotoroj obernulos' dlja avtora politicheskoj travlej i stalo prichinoj ego bolezni i konchiny. Roman, javivshijsja po sobstvennoj ocenke avtora vershinnym ego dostizheniem, voplotil v sebe pronzitel'no iskrennij rasskaz o nravstvennom opyte pokolenija, k kotoromu prinadlezhal B. L. Pasternak, a takzhe glubokie razmyshlenija ob istoricheskoj sud'be strany.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781530978694
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/10/2016
Pages:	438
Sales rank:	532,410
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.89(d)
Language:	Russian

About the Author

BORIS Leonidovich PASTERNAK won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition.” — the Nobel Prize committee. Pasternak had to decline the honor because of the protests in his home country. Doctor Zhivago became an international bestseller and was translated into 18 languages but circulated only in secrecy and translation in Russia. In 1987 the Union of Soviet Writers posthumously reinstated Pasternak, a move that gave his works a legitimacy they had lacked in the Soviet Union since his expulsion from the writers' union in 1958 and that finally made possible the publication of Doctor Zhivago in the Soviet Union. Pasternak's son accepted his father's Nobel Prize medal at a ceremony in Stockholm in 1989.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
Part 1
1	The Five-o'clock Express	3
2	A Girl from a Different World	21
3	The Sventitskys' Christmas Party	63
4	The Hour of the Inevitable	91
Part 2
5	Farewell to the Old	131
6	The Moscow Encampment	166
7	Train to the Urals	209
8	Arrival	254
9	Varykino	277
10	The Highway	306
11	The Forest Brotherhood	329
12	The Rowan Tree	352
13	Opposite the House of Sculptures	376
14	Return to Varykino	419
15	Conclusion	465
16	Epilogue	504
17	The Poems of Yurii Zhivago	521

What People are Saying About This

Boris Pasternak

I used relgious symbolisms to give warmth to the book. Now some critics have become so wrapped up in those symbols—which are put in the book the way stoves go into a house, to warm it up—that they would like me to commit myself and climb in the stove.... It seemed to me that it was my duty to make a statement about my epoch.

Editorial Reviews

...one of the very great books of our time.... The incidents succeed one another with so much invention and vivacity, with such range of characterization and description, each submerges us so completely in the atmosphere of its moment of Russian life... Doctor Zhivago will, I believe, come to stand as one of the great events in man's literary and moral history. Nobody could have written it in a totalitarian state and turned it loose on the world who did not have the courage of genius.... His book is a great act of faith in art and in the human spirit.
—The New Yorker, November 15, 1958

Edmund Wilson