Zhivago, the adolescence of zhenya luvers explores how a thirteenyearold girl ceases to be a child and becomes a woman in russia just before the communist revolution. The novel is named after its protagonist, yuri zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the russian revolution of 1905 and the second world war. But a new translation to mark the 50th anniversary of the authors death loses much of its force, argues ann pasternak slater. Doctor zhivago by boris pasternak the greatest books. Boris leonidovich pasternak was a russian language poet, novelist, and literary translator. Taking his family from moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the ural mountains, zhivago finds himself instead. Boris pasternak married twice, and had one son from his first wife.
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The 1958 edition was issued with a new introduction by babette deutsch under the title of the books main component, pasternaks autobiography. Boris leonidovich pasternak, born january 29 february 10, new style, 1890, moscow, russiadied may 30, 1960, peredelkino, near moscow, russian poet whose novel doctor zhivago helped win him the nobel prize for literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in the soviet union that he declined the honour. As the weekend of the old russian new year approaches, its a. In his native russia, pasternaks anthology my sister life, is one of the most influential collections ever published in the russian language.
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Originally he intended to become a composer, but later chose writing as a career. Banned in russia as antisoviet, pasternaks controversial prose work was hailed as a literary. It tells the story of a man torn between two women, set primarily against the backdrop of the russian revolution of 1917 and the subsequent russian civil war of 19181920. Following the russian revolution of 1917, pasternak worked as a libranian. In russian poetry, boris pasternak s my sisterlife is the equivalent of the waste land.
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