Books by Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak & translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
Doctor Zhivago — first published in Italy in 1957 from a manuscript smuggled out of the Soviet Union — is set in the early part of the 20th century, with an epilogue in World War Two. The story centres on Yuri Zhivago and his love affair with the beautiful Lara. With characters buffeted by revolution, civil war and famine, the novel raises questions about individual agency and moral responsibility amid such upheaval, about fate and coincidence. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Doctor Zhivago, but declined it in order to avoid exile. Allegedly, Khrushchev read the novel after he was ousted from power, and regretted having banned it.
Interviews where books by Boris Pasternak were recommended
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy -
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Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman and translated by Robert Chandler -
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
by Vladimir Nabokov -
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A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Lermontov & translator Vladimir Nabokov -
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
by Nikolai Leskov
Books by Russian Authors
Books by Russian Authors
From the Enlightenment onwards, Russian authors have produced a vast and influential literary canon, including historic epics, absurdist classics, and tortured reflections on the human condition. Russia’s political turmoil also led to the writing of many moving memoirs and political works that sought to find solutions in spite of censorship and, for some authors, exile.
