Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago (Part 2)

This is the masterpiece and only full-length novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Boris Pasternak. Written over a period of ten years starting in 1945, it is a work that synthesizes his entire artistic world. Set against the backdrop of the turbulent history of early 20th-century Russia, stained by revolution and civil war, it depicts the miserable fate and anguish endured by intellectuals of the era through the life of Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and poet. In particular, the tragic love between Zhivago and Lara, which blossomed amidst the tragedy of the times, has left an immortal mark on the history of world literature as a love story of the century. Singing of the dignity of a profoundly human life in an era where individual freedom was deprived under political slogans, this work is a grand epic and a majestic testimony to the times in which the author lived. In 1958, the year following the publication of this work, Pasternak was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving praise for "contributing to the continuation of the great tradition of contemporary lyric poetry and Russian epic literature," and the previous year's winner, Albert Camus, spared no praise for the work, calling it "a book of love." Furthermore, it was adapted into a film of the same name directed by David Lean and starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, which achieved worldwide box office success and rose to the ranks of a masterpiece, sweeping the Academy and Golden Globe Awards.

Korean title: 닥터 지바고(하)

Korean author: 보리스 파스테르나크

Korean publisher: 열린책들

ISBN-13: 9788932922393