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Book title: Doctor Zhivago Author: Boris Pasternak
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"Doctor Zhivago" is the final work of Boris Pasternak, the book of his whole life.
This novel brought its author world fame and the Nobel Prize, the award of which turned into a frenzied political persecution for the poet, accusations of "treason to the Motherland" and as a result cost him his life.
"Doctor Zhivago" is a novel, the very fabric of which is more convincing evidence of a miracle than all the doctor's reflections and the author's generalizations.
A person who writes like this has endlessly experienced and changed his mind, and his main feelings in the world are admiring emotion and tearful compassion; of course, there is a place in his world for contempt and cold detachment – but they are not the essence.
Pasternak's novel is a lament for former errors and their victims; those who do not share the prayerful enthusiasm for the world are worthy of pity first of all.
It is worth rereading "Doctor Zhivago" exactly when it seems that it is not worth living.
Then ten lines from this novel can do the same thing that love does in one of the doctor's poems: "Life has returned as unreasonably as it was strangely interrupted once."
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uuu113 July 29, 2009, 18: 24gt;
By the way, I have not met a single person alive who would like the novel "Resurrection" by Leo Tolstoy, and after all, the writer is great;
I love "Resurrection", in general, I unconditionally love" Resurrection " in Tolstoy, the rest is under a question mark for me.
As for Zhivago, I like it and donot like it, I still like it more than I donot like it, when you read a love scene where water lilies are "yolk with blood", or you come across another crazy metaphor that you donot immediately understand, and when you understand it, it seems almost monstrous, and then suddenly it reveals itself in all the broken beauty of Pasternak's lyrics (oh, sometimes it's just a prose poem), it becomes so piercing, and you realize that you love Pasternak, and then suddenly he becomes boring – some flaws with the plot, or something, some unwritten characters, some kind of incompleteness, but, on the other hand, this has its own meaning, like a postmodern portrait with a half – erased face, personifying industrial loneliness, Zhivago is the same homeless shadow– like "apothecary from Ampurdan, looking for absolutely nothing)
against the background of the revolution, and only nature is deafeningly beautiful) - here, sometimes such thoughts come, and then completely different, that everything is complete and perfect, the characters live and breathe, the doctor the most lively of all.
Not a hero, an ordinary person who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And the Pasternak revolution is wonderful.
In general, it is interesting to compare what kind of music someone has, what kind of music Bulgakov has, what kind of music Blok has, what kind of music Sholokhov has.
And I liked Pasternakovskaya.
I donot know if he deserves a Nobel.
I think he deserves it.
In any case, more than Elfrida Jelinek)
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debrad November 27, 2011, 14: 07The greatest artistic success of the book is certainly Zhivago himself.
Just for the sake of this acquaintance alone, the book must be read.
The main character turned out exactly as it should be.
The intellectual is in the last stage.
Smart, kind, gentle, delicate, all understanding, sensitive, original thinking.
Weak willed, infantile, unreliable, cold, indifferent.
Indifferent to everyone and to everything except his own ideas.
Neither to make a decision, nor to commit an act, nor to become a support for loved ones, nor to feel remorse.
Here are two heroes of the contemporaries of two Nobel laureates.
Grigory Melekhov and Yuri Zhivago.
Melekhov is uneducated and unpleasant in communication, but you feel a deep sincere respect for him.
Zhivago is a nice intelligent person, extremely interesting and pleasant to communicate with.
It is impossible to respect him.
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Lucky Fox Cub June 27, 2011, 12: 55 counted hard.
Not a binge, but in several receptions.
Heavy text, very heavy for perception.
I think that the book is too much.... unsuitable for the age of the average student to include it in the school curriculum.
But!
Despite the complexity of perception, it must be read.
Absolutely necessary.
A sad and bright book about the era of change, written by a participant in these very changes.
Apparently, due to the fact that Pasternak is still a poet, the structure of the book is somewhat chaotic.
It looks more like a diary.
Then every day and the movement of the heroes ' souls are described in detail, then important events are described in two or three words.
When I get lonely, I remember his poems "The hum has subsided.
I went to the stage.
Leaning against the door frame, I catch in the distant echo of What will happen in my lifetime.
The twilight of the night is pointed at me with a thousand binoculars on the axis.
If only it is possible, Abba Father, take this Cup past…"
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Gaskov 04 September 2010, 06: 09 I'm reading, or rather, listening to an audiobook.
It seems to me that none of the books I have read so far has caused me so many contradictory feelings.
From admiration to an almost irresistible desire to give up this painful and endlessly dragging narrative.
To be honest, I donot even know if I'll listen to the end, although there's not much left.
It seems that the author has already said everything, the death of the hero is already looming ahead and for some reason I want it to happen faster, so he is tired of it.
And admiration (no, not admiration, but rather shock), primarily by the fact that you find in places so obvious your similarity to the hero himself.
I understand why the work was not printed in the USSR and was accepted as anti Soviet.
It is not just anti Soviet, it is the most anti Soviet of all that someone wrote before Pasternak and will ever write at all.
Because it does not hit consciousness, consciousness obeys logic, which can always be challenged.
It hits the feelings, and that feeling of disgust for the Soviet government, for those who spun this whole diabolical machine, nothing can wash it away.
Probably, Pasternak did not show any real ideological communist among the numerous characters on purpose, and there is a feeling that some devils or vampires are turning this whole meat grinder.
I donot think that this work is more worthy than other works of Russian authors of the Nobel Prize, and I am sure that it was the anti Soviet content that led to its receipt.
But the fact that this is a really outstanding work is, of course.
As for his style, which often just infuriates with its tiresomeness, and you canot wait (I'm listening and I canot skip the paragraphs), then I remember what you can expect from a poet.
Gogol called his "Dead Souls" a poem, I think that this applies even more to "Doctor Zhivago".
In short, read, or listen.
You may like it or not, but in any case it will be strong.
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Veterinar September 14, 2009, 09: 47The book is brilliant, of course.
Zhivago is shown very colorfully and vividly - "the mewling intellectual".
At the beginning of the novel, the doctor causes empathy, sympathy, closer to the middle bewilderment, then pity, contempt, then just want to spit and not finish reading the book to the end.
Vasisualy Lokhankin was mentioned here to the point, the doctor is the same insignificant being.
You're a MAN, a breadwinner!
Revolution, war, devastation yes on..the army!
Save your family, save your children and your wife.
And who was shown to us?
One family has gone abroad – it's nonsense, why will I rush after her, I will find another wife.
This one was taken away ay yay yay, well, okay.
I came to Moscow – I found the third one, I set up children with her – and into the bushes, they say I need to be alone.
And all this against the background of empathy and reflection.
"I have to work" - read, dirty the paper, smear your snot with a pencil.
Who are you writing for, you snot?
You've fucked up everything that you can, who needs your daub???
For posterity?
They are building a new life, they are not up to the experiences of a loser slug.
For children?
You donot have any children, you left them for your poems and "work".
In general, I read the book and decided to speak out, sorry if there is a lot of text.
I would like to think that the author specifically showed such a person as an anti example for everyone, and not as a hero.
PS the book, I repeat, in my opinion, is brilliant.
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Vrednaya Z July 09, 2009, 08: 41 one of my favorite books, I read it after school, I really liked it, the language is soft, feelings, characters are all in the palm of my hand...I donot want to stop.
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Andrey Matveev 09 July 2009, 01: 15 I think, hardly anyone will argue that Pasternak's novel did not work out.
And the point here is not in the famous phrase of Akhmatova ("Borya's novel did not work out, what can you do here"), but in the fact that Pasternak was still a poet by the nature of his creativity.
The main drawback of the novel is its frank adherence to the plot of a fairy tale.
It is clear that a fairy tale is not the plot outline that is suitable for a novel about a tragic period of Russian history.
Therefore, all the plot twists look so far fetched and sometimes funny that the novel already loses a lot in this one.
The language is also not impressive.
You can keep silent about the characters of the characters...
But here's what's interesting: there is an opinion among experts that Pasternak DELIBERATELY wrote a bad novel.
Something like an idea: the common people would not understand otherwise, but I write for the common people.
This point of view does not appeal to me personally...
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Vrednaya Z 02 July 2009, 09: 28how sorry that giving this to read at school, beat off l love for the classics for a long time.
I read it much later, I really liked it, because of this work I began to read Russian classical literature.
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MMaria 03 June 2009, 10: 39, I'm not worried, it's just ridiculous – that in book reviews, that in reviews of perfumes, people who like something classic, those who do not like it are in a hurry to write down in the narrow minded, spiritless and incomprehensible.
And there are a lot of classics – there is enough for everyone
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VooDoo 02 June 2009, 22:052 mm A sudden kick has come to your spirituality.
Not to love "Zhivago" is a very very serious puncture, almost like falling out of love with all Russian literature.
Get ready now to serious organizational meetings to discuss your lack of spirituality.
P. S. you do not love what you want and how you want and most importantly donot worry about it, and the questions they donot ask if literature is not yours, and there is no need to torture yourself, and your literature will find you anyway (or you like will work).
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MMaria 02 June 2009, 21: 44 thank you for those who loved this book, but, alas, I tried to read it myself (and more than once)... and she condemned Pasternak.
First, the more restrained the feelings of the characters are shown, the more they usually touch me.
When I read that Komarovsky beats a dog, afraid to feel like a person, it only makes me smile.
Oh, my God, Jane Austen was still bantering over a kind of rrromanticism, and here the 20th century after all!
Secondly, I still have a strong opinion that they want to offer me an adult as a positive hero, who, in a situation when it was no longer about sugar, salt and matches, but about physical survival, consistently left his wife with children to the mercy of fate, then a great love (as it turned out, pregnant from him).
In the film, by the way, this moment was greatly smoothed out by the same people who write about the fans of science fiction and Dontsova who have grown up to Pasternak – you're wrong!
I donot like Dontsov at all, only I donot have to like all the classics.
I enjoy reading Lermontov, Thackeray and Chekhov, but I donot like Balzac, Evelyn Waugh or Doctor Zhivago.
And what about my spirituality?
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Dmitrieva Sofia May 23, 2009, 23: 14 A very good book!!!You will not regret reading it!!!!!!!!
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Vaylet March 28, 2009, 09: 02 A powerful and great work of the author, it reads well.
Unusually conveyed: a love story, the life of people in difficult times, a great description of nature.
The poems included in the novel are very heartfelt.
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[altavista] 09 march 2009, 00: 33mvf67 we will never understand each other)) you know, it's even funny)) I also read Krylov's fables)) but in general, I will remain with my opinion) It is difficult to understand Pasternak, you need to know the history well, you need to know that time)) And not by reading "light" literature, such as fiction and the like, to draw conclusions about something more) plus do not rely on the opinion of someone who stupidly makes money on scandalous facts of bygone days))) Donot you think so?)
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[altavista] 07 march 2009, 23: 10mvf67 you know, it's easy to condemn and throw mud after the death of a writer)and arguments appear, and facts...) and my tone is absolutely similar to the tone of negative statements)) pay attention to this.
and yes, I was brought up on the classics)
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[altavista] 07 March 2009, 12: 20 obviously, most of you read at most this fiction.
It's stupid to judge what you donot understand.
As someone said here that you canot fuck with Sholokhov.
So it's not for nothing!!!
Pasternak stands apart in Russian literature, so the comparison is meaningless.
And in general, they wouldnot have given him a bonus just like that.
So if you donot understand REAL literature, read consumer goods and donot show your limitations here.
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Girl February 22, 2009, 13: 19The book is just super!!!
I really liked it!!!=)))
But the film by Alexander Proshkin is simply disgusting!!!=(((
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SorrowJoker November 30, 2008, 17:362 russkiy patriot Not figasse!
Well, what is he alien to?
Excellent poems, good prose.
Or do you only perceive the creativity of ethnic Russians?
And there is no excessive attention, IMHO, someone reads, someone does not.
If you are not a physicist, then it is, of course, for you everyone is Einstein.
The personality, of course, is contradictory, but the scientist is very well known, I donot think that any of the Russian scientists managed to say "everyone"about him.
For you, apparently, it's all about nationality, but this is just narrowness and inertia, blame it already...
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Skilfaret October 28, 2008, 13: 26The real classic!
The great legacy of a great author!
As for the scarcity of the language of the book, I will allow myself to quote the Torah: "Every time you discover the greatness of the Most High, you find his modesty."
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LONLY LOCLY September 29, 2008, 23: 09For me, this book was just a revelation, I donot even know how to say it better.
I read at school, I liked it, but that's all – I didnot understand a lot..
it's too early to read this at school.
But then I reread it a few years ago, and now this book does not deviate from me in any way, it is constantly somewhere inside.
I keep trying to find a pure light in it, not overshadowed by grief – I canot.
Therefore, it seems that everything in this work is REAL alive, rushing, not retreating from the good with hopelessness, and therefore always suffering.
I was struck by the poems.
I love Pasternak's poetry for the fact that it is open to the end, everything is expressed in the poems, there are no innuendos, sincerity and simplicity only.
Especially in the poems of Dr. Zhivago.
In general, this is one of those books, the understanding of which makes a person higher..
and it takes away his peace.
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371Pontos September 29, 2008, 19: 55 One of the best works of Russian literature.
I read it without looking up.
The level of Mozart's requiem.
The only difference is that Mozart sounds optimistic notes of hope and faith in the resurrection against the background of the deepest sorrow of farewell, here is the truth of life and boundless sorrow.
For those who deny this novel look into your soul.
Yuri Zhevago is sitting in each of us.
Who has more, who has less.
If not, then fate has deprived you.
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Anonymous 09 July 2008, 17: 49 I read it sometimes with tears in my eyes...
To say that I liked it is not to say anything, I was not impressed by what I read!
It is comparable only with a Remark.....I recommend that thoughtful, educated people, lovers of Dontsova and other reading materials, it is better not to start.....
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zav June 30, 2008, 23: 11The long boring ordeal of an unnoticed person.
It is written rather drearily and is a sample of anti Russian literature.
For the older school age, it is a matter of familiarization to know what Pasternak's prose is, and there is no point in reading it like this.
It is better to spend your time on Gorky and Sholokhov – these are wonderful writers.
They wrote about life, and Zhivago tastes like cardboard.
You read and choke, and choke... who needs it?
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Diashat May 23, 2008, 16: 31 I did not take up this book for a long time, apparently intuitively.
But at the age of 31, she took it.
I read slowly and with pleasure, I worry about the characters.
I am shocked to the core!
It seems to me that this work deserves a Nobel Prize.
I admire the characters, the description of nature, philosophical digressions, religious reflections, I admire the love of these people.
They didnot have to make a revolution, they didnot have to be Strelnikov – they lived THEIR lives.
This is not a reflection, it's just people with a high spiritual structure who are able to experience this light, this love, thank God for nature, see her life, her beauty, in those inhuman conditions, and could not become others, and could not live differently.
They sailed in that time along the path of THEIR life and this life of theirs was also the life of the whole people.
They simply carried a different charge – to remain human in spite of everything.
I went to work today under the impression of another excerpt from this book, I went and thanked God for allowing the author to give birth to this miracle in due time, for the fact that there are such people who have seen and see all the beauty of this world, who are able to love so nobly, so piercingly and fill the space with light with their spiritual strength and warmth.
They did not need to tear out the throats of others, they did not need special actions – they were much stronger than those who tore, shot, yelled, lied, i.e. did not reflect, created the plot, according to those who did not like the book.
With external inaction, they were much stronger than many!
This book is about the main thing – about the life of people who remain people, not in the context of heroism and heroism, but in the context of one human life.
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AnO April 24, 2008, 13: 47 I did not think that there would be such different reviews.
Although in some ways I agree with you.
In some places, I just admired and swallowed the chapters in a minute, and some places I just wanted to skip.
In general, read and write your opinions.
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Aliska77777 02 March 2008, 13: 41pasternak is just mediocrity, it's so easy to say that the king is naked, and not to look for something in a verbal, mediocre set of words
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ssm17 February 21, 2008, 21: 16 How simply and terribly it is written: "Suddenly Strelnikov started talking about the revolution."
And a former working boy, a former teacher, a former soldier and a former revolutionary commander draws a line under his unfulfilled life.
One high ranking, let's say, weirdo called the collapse of the USSR the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.
Lies.
What happened in the early 1990s was just a finale, even a kind of catharsis, purification.
And the catastrophe occurred 70 years earlier – when our Homeland turned into an Evil Empire – a monstrous chimera with quite frank symbolism (the globe on the coat of arms they would have drawn a machine gun to make it clearer), for many decades.
it posed a threat to humanity.
"Doctor Zhivago" is a book about the burnt generation!
About people whose souls were burned in the fire of the First World War, in the fire of the red terror and the civil war.
Pasternak created a monument to his generation.
Not everyone likes to admire the monuments.
But we simply have to respect them.
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Lyubasha 06 February 2008, 19: 12 For some reason it became so scary after all these reviews...
I read "Doctor Zhivago" back in school.
And I got a great pleasure.
Yes, undoubtedly Pasternak has a peculiar style of presentation, like Sholokhov or Bunin, for example.
But it is only necessary to overpower yourself a little, and now you can no longer tear yourself away from the book.
Roman the great.
And this is exclusively my point of view.
And it became scary for this reason: the majority of people poison Pasternak, as he was once poisoned in the USSR.
In my opinion, this is wrong.
If I start from this work at all, then I can say to myself that when I pick up a book, I am not interested in the nationality of the author, or any gossip about it, but only that the book turns out to be good.
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Aferuk 08 December 2007, 12: 36If everything was so fake, there would be nothing to talk about it for so many years.
The Nobel Prize?
a scandal?
and how many scandals do we remember around really inflated and fake personalities?
No, it's different here.
And it's not even so much about the brilliant cycle of poems by Yuri Zhivago, and even more so not about the national question, as some particularly active reviewers are trying to present it.
The fact is that all this happened, and the author personally knew the prototypes of the main characters, and he was already a mature person when the events described take place, that is, he could feel all this in a Pasternak non standard way and give us the opportunity to be present there in this environment, to participate mentally in these dialogues of the main characters and of course (I canot disagree with dear Sweetie) the great Russian (please note) nature is undoubtedly not just a background for the narrative, but one of the main actors.
This book will be read and re read precisely because it is sincere.
Well, poems, of course, are immortal.
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dimetra k November 28, 2007, 12: 59 So, she was called Tatiana... (at the request of Gaelic Monster)
"Einstein's formula" for the photoelectric effect: hv = 1/2 mV**2 + A Ce is the classical definition of the energy received by the body, which existed a hundred years before.
It is spent on the work performed by the body on the environment (A) and on the communication of kinetic energy to the body.
Here E. did not invent anything.
The received energy itself was also determined without any participation of E., because neither" v "nor" h " was invented by E. either.
Here is what is said about E.'s contribution to the study of the photoelectric effect in the physics textbook: "The explanation of the laws of the photoelectric effect was given in 1905 by the German scientist Albert Einstein on the basis of the hypothesis of light quanta.
Following Planck, he suggested that if the radiation of energy by atoms occurs discretely in the form of portions or quanta, then its propagation in space and absorption by matter occurs in portions (quanta)."
Next comes the famous formula.
Yes, my memory failed me, the third law is the law of Stoletov.
And no one gave him any bonuses.
But the Bar was given, but not for the "Einstein" photoelectric effect, but "in recognition of his merits in the development of physics thanks to the discovery of energy quanta."
I hope it is clear that it was P. who discovered quantum energy.
I admit, he was inaccurate.
Now, I hope, accuracy and justice have been restored.
You will say, de, that after all, what kind of talent you need to have to bring everything together so beautifully.
Yes, you need to have talent, or wipe your pants in the patent office, where talents are piled up.
And then, with his wife physicist Mileva Marich, everything will go, to
