Doctor Zhivago

Pasternak, Boris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0002711567 ISBN 13: 9780002711562

Publisher: Harvill Press, 1988

Read but well kept, light scuffing. One of the world's great novels and most profound descriptions of love in the whole range of modern literature. " The first work of genius to come out of Russia since the Revolution" - V. S. Pritchett (fic)

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:

A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition.