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Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (2011, Penguin Random House)

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2011ko mar. 26a(e)an Penguin Random House(e)n argitaratua.

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978-0-09-954124-0
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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.**

--------- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak's only novel, is set between the early 1900s and World War II and contains complex plot lines and …

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  • Soviet union, history, revolution, 1917-1921, fiction
  • Fiction, historical