![]() This novel explores the idealism of its protagonist, which is contrasted with the brutal reality of war and its effects on ordinary citizens. Doctor Zhivago is also a love story of a man torn between two women-his wife, Tonia, and the beautiful Lara with whom Yuri has an affair. ![]() Pasternak, as the author espouses through his protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, in this his only novel, believed that art should not be enslaved by politics and thus criticized his oppressive government through his writing.ĭoctor Zhivago is an epic work that provides several fictionalized eye-witness accounts of the upheaval in Russia as the tsar is deposed, communism rises from the revolution, and a Marist government attempts to take control. Pasternak's manuscript for this novel had to be written in secrecy and then smuggled out of the Soviet Union because of government censorship of Pasternak's work. ![]() Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was first published in 1957, not in Pasternak's homeland, the Soviet Union, but rather in Italy. ![]()
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