TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pasternak,Boris Leonidovich
TI  - Doctor Zhivago
SN  - 9780099448426
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Political fiction
KW  - lcsh
KW  - Epic fiction
KW  - War fiction
N2  - 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
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