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Doctor Zhivago Vintag Clasi Rusian Serie Paperback – January 1, 2017
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Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago was nonetheless published covertly in Russian by the CIA and translated into many languages. In 1958 Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Vintage Classic Russians Series: Published for the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian Revolution, these are must-have, beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy, censorship and suppression to influence decades of thought and artistic expression.
- Print length544 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPenguin Random House UK
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2017
- Dimensions6.02 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101784871923
- ISBN-13978-1784871925
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- Publisher : Penguin Random House UK (January 1, 2017)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 544 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1784871923
- ISBN-13 : 978-1784871925
- Item Weight : 1.42 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.02 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
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As a teenager, I was enchanted by the love story, and couldn't really follow (or understand) the politics. Now, so many decades later, I appreciated the emotional and moral tensions. I still didn't understand all the ins and out of politics. I found myself a bit impatient with the lengthy philosophical discussions, and the numerous extraneous characters. However, the majesty of Pasternak's language entranced me all the way through. Here's one passage from where Zhivago is being swept away writing poetry:
"His work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the correlation of the forces controlling the artist is, as it were, stood on its head. The ascendancy is no longer with the artist or the state of mind which he is trying to express, but with language. his instrument of expression. Language, the home and dwelling of beauty and meaning, itself begins to think and speak for man and turns wholly into music, not in the sense of outward, audible sounds but by virtue of the power and momentum of its inward flow."
"An old Russian folk song is like water in a weir. It looks as if it were still and were no longer flowing but in its depths it is ceaselessly rushing through the sluice-gates and its stillness is an illusion."
This next one is lovely -- Zhivago describing Lara. But I doubt that it would be get past an editor today (might be seen as sappy):
"How well he loved her, and how lovable she was, in exactly the way he had always thought and dreamed and needed. Yet what was it that made her so lovely?.. She was lovely by virtue of the matchlessly simple and swift line which the Creator at a single stroke had drawn round her, and in this divine outline she had been handed over, like a child tightly wound up in a sweet after its bath, into the keeping of his soul."
This is a long book. By the end, I felt like I'd spent about thirty years in Russia.
The story is of Zhivago, but known throughout the book as Yurii Andreievich. From his youth and throughout his life in the turbulent and changing times of Revolutionary Russia, Zhivago presents a character who endures the worst of life’s hardships with a strength and unwillingness to give up. His love for his small family is enduring, but his love for his mistress is beyond passion, more of survival, like she is the air he breathes.
I don’t want to go into much detail, since I’ll be saving it for my presentation for the class, but, I will say that this book is worth reading. You can definitely tell that Pasternak was a poet before writing this novel, for his words are so lyrical when he his describing his scenery and his characters. I’m glad I chose this for my book report. It will be a lot easier getting the project done than it would’ve been for a book that I detested.
While I was prepared for the somewhat dense prose that can be expected from Russian writers of the period, the virtual avalanche of Russian names almost did me in. It was only my familiarity with the story that allowed me to follow the events preceding Zhivago's arrival in Yuriatin. By this time, the characters had become familiar, in all of their various names and diminutives.
As I mentioned, the writing can be dense at times, and as Pasternak was considered a more accomplished poet than novelist, somewhat florid. Nevertheless, the writing can be captivating and the imagery, when taken in conjunction with images from the motion picture, is, at times, spellbinding.
The story, Russia in a state of political and economic chaos during the period surrounding WWI and the Bolshevik revolution, is informative and educational. Only viewing the events through the trials and tribulations of individuals can the challenges of the period be fully appreciated.
If you are familiar with other works by Russian writers of the period and are comfortable with their style, you will likely enjoy this work. If you read it simply because you enjoyed the movie, you might not give it high marks.