Doctor Zhivago
Many of us have watched the movie directed by David Lean with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in the lead roles.
The book left a completely different impression on me than the movie.
The extensiveness of the work, the beautiful descriptions, and a large number of characters deserve this work to be read at a slower pace.
I didn’t find much romance, unlike the movie shows.
Honestly, I like this novel much more than a movie. Pasternak's realism is still highly valued.
The novel describes the life of Doctor Yuri Zhivago in the period from 1903 to 1945 and his vision of key stages in Russian history.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (29 January 1890 – 30 May 1960) was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator.
Pasternak was born in Moscow on 10 February (Gregorian), 1890 (29 January, Julian) into a wealthy family. His father was the Post-Impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak, professor at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
Pasternak went to the Moscow Conservatory to study music and later to Germany to study philosophy.
In 1922, Pasternak's My Sister, Life, revolutionized Russian poetry, was published.
He criticized Stalinism, Collectivisation, the Great Purge, and the Gulag.
The book, Early Trains was published in 1943.
Although the novel contains passages written in the 1910s and 1920s, Doctor Zhivago was not completed until 1956. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy for publication.
Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca, and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.
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