Pasternak, Boris Leonidovich 1890-1960 creator text Historical fiction. Political fiction. Epic fiction. War fiction. enk 1991 monographic eng

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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 9780099448426 DLC 950105 20241108112738.0