Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel that takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War.

Smuggled out of Russia and published – first in Italian – in 1957, Doctor Zhivago was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece in the West. Doctor Zhivago (Italian: Il dottor Živago) is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago.While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958, an event that enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which forced … Doctor Zhivago was that book. It was packed with dynamite and, as Pasternak expected, it blew up in his face. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak is quite remarkably a poet's novel: the writer was a poet, and hence each page is full of beautiful imagery, metaphors and word play. The protagonist is a poet, the novel revolves around his love and life in the first half of twentieth century Russia. The novel "Doctor Zhivago" becomes a spiritual biography of its author, because the fate of Yuri Zhivago is woven into the life and spiritual path of its creator. Doctor Zhivago is an epic, a romance, and a history. 219 quotes from Doctor Zhivago: ‘I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. CIA Publishes Doctor Zhivago in Russian and Exposes Life in USSR under Communism. Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt. Threatened with disgrace and exile, Boris Pasternak was finally denounced as an enemy of the people. “Doctor Zhivago” is a 1957 novel by the Russian author Boris Pasternak. It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago. Set between the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Second World War, Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago, first published in Italy in 1957, takes its name from its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago. Actually, the novel revolves around Yuri Andreivich Zhivago a doctor and poet whose life is a series of trials beginning with the funeral for his mother' until he too made the honorable exit to the world beyond. The novel tells the story of Yuri Zhivago, a man torn between his love for two women while simultaneously attempting to navigate the tumultuous times of twentieth-century Russia. Update this section. After you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Doctor Zhivago (Italian: Il dottor Živago) is a 1965 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt.It is set in Russia between the years prior to World War I and the Russian Civil War of 1918–1922, and is based on the 1957 Boris Pasternak novel Doctor Zhivago.While immensely popular in the West, the book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR, but the manuscript was smuggled to Italy for publication. You can help us out by revising, improving and updating this section. Due to the novel’s subject matter and it’s stance on the Soviet Union and the October Revolution, the USSR refused to publish the novel and Pasternak had to publish it in Italy after it was smuggled into the country by a friend. Check out 'Mirror quiz' answers for TODAY! The crossword clue 'Boris , author of 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago; 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature winner' published 1 time⁄s and has 1 unique answer⁄s on our system. The CIA has declassified 99 documents describing the CIA’s role publishing Boris Leonidovich Pasternak’s epic novel, Doctor Zhivago, for the first time in Russian in 1958 after it had been banned from being published in the Soviet Union. Set between the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Second World War, Boris Pasternak’s novel Doctor Zhivago, first published in Italy in 1957, takes its name from its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago.