Doctor Jivago
Doctor Jivago is a novel of Boris Pasternak.
This work, published for the first Russian time in , in Italy in 1957, was it in a particular political context which could serve it: that of the Cold war. In 1958 its author had the Nobel Prize of literature which it had to refuse under the constraint of the political power. This book paints a picture of the passage of Russia tsarist to the the communist USSR with the terrible civil war which martyrisa its population, those which believed in it as those which did not believe in it.
The Siberia, where is held part of the action in the the Twenties and 30, is described in a way particularly attaching. In the book, there are several levels of stories, personal, in love, political and a precise description, almost journalistic, devastations of a civil war. The characters of the heroes are not painted with large features, the people are also treated like finally toys of the events. The hero, Doctor Jivago, is not especially attaching, by certain aspects it appears loose, only the fact of surviving an animal instinct of attachment the life.
See too
- the film Doctor Jivago (1965)