Doctor Zhivago

by PASTERNAK, BORIS

• ISBN13: 9780679774389
• ISBN10: 0679774386
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1997-03-18
• Publisher: Pantheon

Summary

n celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, here is the only paperback edition now available of the classic story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution.

Author Biography

BORIS Leonidovich PASTERNAK won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958 "for his important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition.” — the Nobel Prize committee. Pasternak had to decline the honor because of the protests in his home country. Doctor Zhivago became an international bestseller and was translated into 18 languages but circulated only in secrecy and translation in Russia. In 1987 the Union of Soviet Writers posthumously reinstated Pasternak, a move that gave his works a legitimacy they had lacked in the Soviet Union since his expulsion from the writers' union in 1958 and that finally made possible the publication of Doctor Zhivago in the Soviet Union. Pasternak's son accepted his father's Nobel Prize medal at a ceremony in Stockholm in 1989.


From the Hardcover edition.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
John Bayley
PART ONE
The Five-o'clock Express	3	(18)
A Girl from a Different World	21	(42)
The Sventitskys' Christmas Party	63	(28)
The Hour of the Inevitable	91	(40)
PART TWO
Farewell to the Old	131	(35)
The Moscow Encampment	166	(43)
Train to the Urals	209	(45)
Arrival	254	(23)
Varykino	277	(29)
The Highway	306	(23)
The Forest Brotherhood	329	(23)
The Rowan Tree	352	(24)
Opposite the House of Sculptures	376	(43)
Return to Varykino	419	(46)
Conclusion	465	(39)
Epilogue	504	(17)
The Poems of Yurii Zhivago	521