![]() ![]() ![]() In 1958, a limited edition of Zhivago was presented to the Swedish Academy, which went on to award Pasternak the literature Nobel, a prize he initially accepted, but four days later was forced by Khrushchev to decline: “Considering the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong, I must refuse it. Five million of said individuals, on six continents, purchased copies within two decades of the novel’s release.īest-sellerdom, in this case, was as much a response to the novel’s murky charms as to the circumstances surrounding its appearance outside the USSR. Their 1956 suppression turned the book into a legend, while in 1965 Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, with hesitant accents, did its author a notable service: They made a mediocre but popular film. ![]() The novel, an Orthodox censer’s blend of mysticism and erotic kitsch, was a censor’s feast: It espoused no politics but that of the individual, which stance provoked the suspicion of the Soviet authorities. ![]() Doctor Zhivago concerns Pasternak’s alter ego, physician-poet Yuri Zhivago: his youth and early marriage, abduction by the Red Partisans, and enduring love for “Lara,” Larissa Feodorovna. During the Second War, poet Boris Pasternak wrote prose about the First-about the Russian Revolution. ![]()
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