Yeah, the stakes are pretty high in this book, and there ain't a lot of lighthearted comedy in it. And for a great writer like Pasternak, anything that condemns the power of the individual mind is an enemy of all that is good and beautiful in the world. Much like George Orwell's Animal Farm, Pasternak's book admits that the capitalist system that existed before Communism was totally awful and nearly just as bad as Communism turned out to be.īut the thing about Communism that never sits well with Pasternak's main character, Yuri Zhivago, is the way that this mode of thinking completely ignores and condemns the power of the individual human being to think for him- or herself. Now to be fair, there's a lot more to Doctor Zhivago than a critique of Communism. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize the next year, he both humiliated and enraged the rulers of his home country. It was only after Pasternak smuggled a copy out of the country that he was able to publish the book in Italian. He wrote the book in Russian, but since the book criticized Communism, the Soviets banned it from publication. Well, it was only one year earlier, in 1957, that Pasternak published his masterpiece Doctor Zhivago.
The thing is that while Sartre turned down the prize for philosophical reasons, Pasternak turned it down because the Soviet government would have given him some serious trouble if he'd dared to accept it. E-264 8vo 8" - 9" tall.In 1958, Boris Pasternak became only the second writer (after Jean-Paul Sartre) to ever refuse the Nobel Prize for Literature. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak's original his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Ampelio Tettamanti DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is chipped and worn to the extremities).
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