Doctor Zhivago

Roman Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) "Dr. Zhivago" - the pinnacle of the prose work of the great Russian poet. The wording of the Nobel Committee, which certified the Pasternak of the Prize for 1958, mentioned both of his creative hypostasis: "For significant achievements in modern lyrical poetry, as well as for the continuation of the traditions of the great Russian epic novel." The writer himself believed the "Doctor Zhivago" with a whole life: "I graduated from the novel, fulfilled the duty, bequeathed from God." The literary authorities of the USSR at first did not allow the release of the "anti -Soviet" book ("" there can be no question of the publication of your novel "), and after his publication abroad, the writer was fierce in the persecution. Only three dozen years later, in January - April 1988, the "New World" published a novel in the author’s homeland. “This is the spiritual autobiography of Pasternak, written by him with marginal frankness,” Academician Dmitry Likhachev noted in the preface. Following the worldwide recognition, both genuine glory and the grimaces of the Massquulture came: "Dr. Zhivago is the main character of the twentieth century, a person who is looking for his way, just like our Russia. Fair words, however, are said in the opening of the glamorous Grand Cafe "Dr. Zhivago "at the hotel" National ". That would be surprised by the modest Yuri Andreevich Zhivago.

The accompanying article by Natalia Ivanova

Ivanova Natalya Borisovna - Russian literary critic, literary critic, publicist. Doctor of Philology. Deputy editor -in -chief of the magazine "Banner". I gave lectures on Russian literature at universities in the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, Italy and other countries. The author of more than five hundred works on Russian literature, including monographs about Fazil Iskander, Yuri Trifonov, Boris Pasternak. The initiator of the institution and the coordinator of the award Ivan Petrovich Belkin