Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak

Random House Digital, Inc., Mar 18, 1997 - Fiction - 558 pages

First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy,Doctor Zhivagois the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak's original—his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.

What people are saying

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Sean Mcmahon - Goodreads

I was passed the book by my girl, this does not automatically mean that I will dislike a book but I'm cluching at straws as to explain why it left little or no impression. We were travelling the world ...

Review: Doctor Zhivago

User Review  - Ariel Burbaickij - Goodreads

Despite a huge hype and spin -- book is not even close to being that great and in my opinion clearly falls behind Soviet Russian civil war epics of Sholochov, Alexei Tolstoi and Bulgakov

Contents

• PART: 2
• The F iveoclock Express: 3
• A Cirl from a Different World: 21
• The Sventitskys Christmas Party: 63
• The Hour of the Inevitable: 91
• PART: 129
• U1 Farewell to the Old: 131
• The Moscow Encampment: 166
• Train to the Urals: 209
• Arrival: 254
• Varykino: 277
• The Highway: 306
• The Forest Brotherhood: 329
• The Rowan Tree: 352
• Opposite the House of Sculptures: 376
• Return to Varykino: 419
• Conclusion: 465
• Epilogue 54: 504
• The Poems of Yurii Zhivago 52 1: 520

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.


From the Hardcover edition.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Doctor Zhivago
• Author: Boris Pasternak
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc., 1997
• ISBN: 0679774386, 9780679774389
• Length: 558 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Political; Fiction / Romance / Historical / General