num_pages: 592
description: This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller.Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician whose life is disrupted by the war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary. His artistic nature makes him vulnerable to the brutality and harshness of the Bolsheviks. The poems he writes constitute some of the most beautiful writing featured in the novel.
language: English
title: Doctor Zhivago
titlecomplete: Doctor Zhivago
characters: Anfim Yefimovitch Samdevyatov, Larissa Fëdorovna Antipova, Rodyon Fyodorovich Guishar, Anna Ivanovna Gromeko, Nicky Dudorov, Marina (Doctor Zhivago), Amalia Karlovna Guishar, Kologrivov, Nikolay Nikolayevich Vedenyapin, Alexander Alexandrovich Gromeko, Pavel Pavlovich Antipov, Victor Ippolitovich Komarovsky, Nadya Kologrigova, Misha Gordon, Iosif Gimazetdinovich Galiullin, Kuprik Tiverzin, Yury Andreyevich Zhivago, Antonina Alexandrovna Gromeko, Evgraf Andreevič Zivago, Markel Shchapov
genres: Classics, Historical, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, War, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 94850
places: Soviet Union, Yuriatin, Russia, Moscow, Siberia
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Premio Bancarella
publisher: Pantheon