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Pantheon
March 1997
On Sale: March 18, 1997
Featuring: Dr. Yury Zhivago; Lara
592 pages
ISBN: 0679774386
EAN: 9780679774389
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
Novel by Boris Pasternak, published in Italy in 1957. 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; wandering throughout Russia, he is unable to
take control of his fate, and dies in utter poverty. The
poems he leaves behind constitute some of the most beautiful
writing in the novel.
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