Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with the new order and confronts the changes cruel experience has made in him and the anguish of being torn between the love of two women. This novel talks about Russia in the throes of revolution, offering a love story.[...]

From the acclaimed translators of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", a stunning new translation of Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece, the first since the 1958 original. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, "Doctor Zhivago" is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physici[...]

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. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead e[...]

The dramatic political struggle of Boris Pasternak and the continued success of his novel. Dr. Zhivago, have often taken center stage in discussions of this writer. Olga Raevsky Hughes chooses instead to focus on the aesthetics underlying Pasternak's snuggles and successes to explore the ways in whi[...]

Boris Pasternak, the Nobel laureate and author of Doctor Zhivago, composed one of the world's great love poems in My Sister -- Life. Written in the summer of 1917, the cycle of poems focuses on personal journeys and loves but is permeated by the tension and promise of the impending October Revolutio[...]

"The summer of 1926 was a time of trouble and uncertainty for each of the poets whose letters appear here. Boris Pasternak was in Moscow, trying to come to terms with the new Bolshevik regime. Marina Tsvetayeva, exiled from the Soviet Union to France with her husband and two children, was struggling[...]

Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara.[...]

V etu knigu voshli prozaicheskie tvorenija genialnogo Borisa Pasternaka — povesti i rasskazy «Apellesova cherta», «Pisma iz Tuly», «Detstvo Ljuvers», «Vozdushnye puti», «Okhrannaja gramota», a takzhe drugie proizvedenija, otkryvajuschie raznoobraznye grani ego unikalnogo talanta.[...]

Sudba Borisa Pasternaka javljaet soboj neverojatnyj primer bezuprechnoj i schastlivoj zhizni v epokhu istoricheskikh kataklizmov. "...I ni edinoj dolkoj ne otstupatsja ot litsa..." - eti strochki mogli by stat epigrafom ne tolko k ego tvorchestvu. On ne shel na otkrytuju konfrontatsiju s vlastju, on[...]

Oshelomljajuschaja, izbytochnaja metaforichnost i pronzitelnaja odukhotvorennost ? vot otlichitelnye cherty poezii i prozy Borisa Pasternaka. Ego tvorchestvo prodolzhaet tradi tsii russkoj i mirovoj klassiki, no pri etom organichno sochetaet ikh s dostizhenijami literatury Serebrjanogo veka i avanga[...]