DOCTOR ZHIVAGO – Romance, by Boris Pasternak

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, he could not go and collect it, because the return home would have been precluded. He died shortly after, in 1960. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXtFRl1nSs4 Boris Pasternak, the son of a painter and a pianist, after having completed studies in music, law and philosophy, he began his artistic activity in futuristic avant-garde. The beginning of 1914 is marked by a volume of poems. It was soon recognized as one of the most interesting Russian poets of his generation. His work firmly tied to the great Russian nineteenth season (in particular to Tolstoy). Poet and member unaligned intelligentsia, he lived apart into a colony of writers near Moscow, never trying to win the sympathy of the Soviet authorities.

Doctor Zhivago, it is the story of a doctor, a man overwhelmed by the impact of the Russian Revolution, but also the history of the spiritual emptiness in which plunges his country. This is the content of the novel that earned Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. https://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Zhivago-Everymans-Library-Pasternak/dp/0679407596 In the grand tradition of the epic novel, Pasternak’s masterpiece brings to life the drama of the Russian Revolution, through the story of the physician and poet, Zhivago. Reading this novel, you can know also the revolutionary Strelnikov and Lara (the passionate woman they both love). Caught up in the great events of politics and war – that eventually destroy him and millions of others – Zhivago clings to the private world of family life and love, embodied especially in Lara.

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