01601cam a2200241 a 4500 PH-MaWHO PH-MaWHO 20241108112738.0 950105s1991 enk 000 1 eng 9780099448426 DLC WPRO Library OCoLC DLC Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich, 1890-1960. 674790 Doktor Zhivago. English Doctor Zhivago / London : Vintage Books, 2002. xxxiii, 510 pages ; 22 cm. 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. Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction. 674791 Historical fiction. gsafd 674578 Political fiction. lcsh 674675 Epic fiction. gsafd 674579 War fiction. lcsh 675228 17796 17796 0 0 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 0 FIC PAS Doctor FIC0057 2024-05-20 00:00:00 MONO