Doctor Zhivago (English Library) - Softcover

Pasternak, Boris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0003700976 ISBN 13: 9780003700978

Publisher: Collins Educational Glasgow, 1979

Synopsis

Publisher: Collins & Harvill Press
Date of Publication: 1978
Binding: soft back
Edition:
Condition: Good
Description: 0003700976 Translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari.

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Review:

"The best way to understand Pasternak's achievement in Doctor Zhivago is to see it in terms of this great Russian literary tradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil as of opposing forces and needs in human destiny and history that can never be reconciled . . . [Zhivago is] a figure who embodies the principle of life itself, the principle that contradicts every abstraction of revolutionary politics."--from the Introduction by John Bayley

The best way to understand Pasternak s achievement in Doctor Zhivago is to see it in terms of this great Russian literary tradition, as a fairy tale, not so much of good and evil as of opposing forces and needs in human destiny and history that can never be reconciled . . . [Zhivago is] a figure who embodies the principle of life itself, the principle that contradicts every abstraction of revolutionary politics. from the Introduction by John Bayley"

Book Description:

One of the 20th century’s must-read novels: a love story set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, told in prose so lyrical it is on the brink of becoming poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Educational Glasgow
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0003700976
• ISBN 13: 9780003700978
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120