Author: [Soviet Union] Pasternak
Type: novel
Background search
This book was written in 1957. It is the representative work of the Soviet writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) and the main reason why the writer 1958 won the Swedish Academy Science Award. Unlike most Soviet writers at that time, Pasternak rarely praised the socialist revolution and construction in his poems, and even complained about "collectivism". From 1933 to 1943, the poet failed to publish a work. From 65438 to 0956, the manuscript of doctor zhivago was written, but the editor of New World decided that the core spirit of the novel was "hating socialism". The poet was severely criticized in his rejection letter. The depressed poet had to send the manuscript to Italy. 165438 10, the Italian version of doctor zhivago was successfully published, which immediately won unanimous praise from western cultural circles. However, the "zhivago fever" in the western world made the writer's situation even worse. The Soviet Writers Association once again criticized zhivago and demanded that the authorities expel the poet from the country. Pasternak, who loves every inch of Russia, had to refuse to receive the Nobel Prize to prove his loyalty to Russia. Two years later, the poet died alone. 1982, the Soviet union rehabilitated the wronged poet, and the Russian version of doctor zhivago was officially published in the Soviet union on 1988.
Doctor zhivago, published by Foreign Literature Publishing House and translated by Lan Yingnian and Zhang Bingheng, is a better translation.
Content essence
Yuri andreyevich zhivago's ancestors were rich in Siberia. Due to the untimely death of his parents, lonely little zhivago was taken to the agronomist's home by his learned uncle for foster care. In Gromeko's home, tonia and zhivago, who are similar in age, grew up as childhood friends and gradually fell in love with each other.
At a Christmas party, a girl named Lala shot at Victor, a popular lawyer (a hypocrite who was promoted step by step by framing others), only to accidentally hurt others and cause a stir. Zhivago, who also came to the ball, was deeply shocked by the beauty and sadness of the lesbian.
After graduating from college, zhivago became a doctor, happily married tonia and gave birth to a baby boy. The first world war broke out. Zhivago's superb medical skills and unique insights were just displayed, and he was sent to the battlefield as a military doctor. In the field hospital, zhivago came across a lesbian who was a nurse. After the shooting, Lala got rid of the villain Victor completely and finally married her sweetheart Pavel Antipov. However, the depressed Pavel abandoned his wife and children after the war and went to war voluntarily. He was captured in a battle because he was alone, and then his life and death were unknown. Lala traveled thousands of miles to find her husband and became a nurse in the front line. In the contact with Lala, doctor zhivago was deeply moved by her strength and unique charm again. As far away as Moscow, tonia sensitively smelled the variation in zhivago's heart from her husband's letter, and wrote back to her husband with tears-"Go find a lesbian and don't go back to Moscow". Zhivago felt guilty.
Finally, after the war, zhivago returned to Moscow to reunite with his family. Then the October Revolution broke out. Zhivago hated the old exploitation system and rejoiced in the victory of the revolution. In the case that doctors in the same hospital fled in succession, zhivago insisted on staying. However, the fierce political atmosphere made it more and more unbearable for doctors who could not stand the violence, and the family fled to valentino to live in seclusion. Zhivago likes this country life very much. After hard work, zhivago began to write poems and essays. Weathered, he wants to write down some of his inner feelings and tell others. Tonya is pregnant again.
One day, zhivago went to study in the city and found his long-lost lesbian in the library. Zhivago suppressed her inner surprise and tried to avoid contact with the same lesbian. But I couldn't help it in the end. After the emotional explosion, two like-minded people fell madly in love. Lala's husband Pavel was already a well-known Red Army general at that time, with decisive military exploits and far-reaching reputation. But he changed his name, but he didn't recognize the lesbian mother and daughter when he was close at hand. The experience, thoughts and feelings of lesbians fascinated zhivago, but also made him feel deeply guilty about tonia and his family.
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Just as zhivago was about to end his love affair with Lala, the guerrillas hijacked the doctor into the jungle because their doctor had just been killed. In the process of fighting guerrillas, zhivago once again experienced the cruelty of war and the poison of dogmatism. He sneaked out when the guerrillas were about to win. In the snowstorm, doctor zhivago, exhausted and bearded, fled back to the desolate Yuri Arkin after the disaster. He misses tonia, but he feels that the branches covered with frost and snow are like Lala's snow-white arms. Down and out, he fell ill in the house where Lala once lived.
After waking up, zhivago found himself lying in the gentle arms of Lala. Lala told him that tonia had been expelled from the country by the revolutionary movement to eliminate counter-revolutionaries, and zhivago himself was facing trial as a deserter. Pavel, once famous, is also under investigation at this time, and lesbian mother and daughter are inevitably implicated. Zhivago and Lala are once again twisted by fate. They fled to an abandoned house in valentino, enjoying rare peace and happiness in the chaos. But the wolf's howling in the middle of the night awakened their dreams. Victor's sudden visit brought the news that Pavel would be executed. In order to protect the lesbian mother and daughter, zhivago asked Victor to take the lesbian away. ...
Lonely zhivago has returned to Moscow, and his former alcoholic servant has also made a fortune. The servant's only daughter who was studying fell in love with zhivago, who was abandoned by the world. Despite the opposition of her family, she took good care of the declining doctor. In the midst of difficulties, my half-brother appeared again. He sponsored zhivago to publish poems and tried to get doctors back to work in the hospital. However, zhivago, who had suffered from heart disease for many years, suddenly died on the road on his first day at work.
Tonia is still waiting for the arrival of zhivago. After attending zhivago's funeral, Lala, who fled back to Moscow, was put into a concentration camp by the revolution and never came out.
personal seal
This article describes the life of zhivago and Lala who fled to a remote cabin in the forest. The sweetness, tranquility and harmony of the Garden of Eden in the war years are heartbreaking. The gentle candlelight in the hut and the howling of wolves in the snow outside constitute the sharpest opposition in the novel.
That night, they took a good bath with the hot water left over from washing clothes. Lala also gave Kajanka a bath. Yuri andreyevich, sitting at a desk by the window with his back to the room, has a fresh sense of joy. Lala is full of fragrance, wearing a bathrobe, holding up her wet hair with a fluffy towel, putting Kajanka on the bed, tucking her in and getting ready for bed. Yuri andreyevich had a hunch that he would be happy to concentrate on his writing. He is emotional and absently feeling everything around him.
Yuri andreyevich is surrounded by a calm full of happiness and sweet life. The light cast a leisurely yellow shadow on the white paper and sprinkled a few drops of gold on the ink mouth of the ink bottle. Outside the window is a bluish winter night. Yuri andreyevich walked into the cold room next door with no light on, from which he could see the scenery outside more clearly. He looked out of the window. The clear light of the full moon is tightly wrapped in snow, as if coated with a layer of sticky egg white or white milk pigment. The beauty of a cold winter night is beyond description. The doctor's heart is unusually calm. He went back to the warm room, turned on the light and sat down to write.
His handwriting is very large and widely spaced, for fear of not showing the energy of writing, losing his personality and becoming dull and dull.
After writing two or three poems and metaphors that surprised him, he was completely immersed in his work and felt that the so-called inspiration had arrived. The relationship between the forces that dominate creation seems to be reversed. First of all, it is not man and the mental state he seeks to express, but the language he wants to express this mental state. The repository of language, motherland, beauty and meaning began to think and speak for others, not in the sense of acoustics, but in the sense of its inherent rapidity, which completely turned into music. ……
(Selected from doctor zhivago, translated by Lan Yingnian and Zhang Bingheng, published by Foreign Literature Publishing House)
Humorous words
What I want to say now, you should pay special attention: the person who exists in other people's hearts is the soul of this person. This is you, what your consciousness depends on to breathe, nourish and intoxicated in your life. This is your soul, your immortality, your life in others.
Reading teaching
Through the personal experience of doctor zhivago, an old-school intellectual, the poet explored and showed the other side of the grand history of Russian two revolutions (February Revolution and October Revolution) and two wars (World War I and Civil War) from a brand-new perspective-the cruelty of struggle, the ruthlessness of destruction and personal negativity. In his works, the poet fully shows his persistent humanitarian feelings and admiration for personal feelings and thoughts. Based on this, the poet expressed his deepest sympathy for doctor zhivago and questioned the violent mistakes of sensitive writers in the revolution. It should be said that when everyone sang the great victory of the Soviet socialist revolution and collectivism in unison, Pasternak was able to maintain the calm reflection that a poet and a humanist should have, which was commendable. It can be said that it is precisely because of the poet's persistent pursuit of humanitarian ideals and the reflection and questioning of the tendency of simplification and extremism of revolutionary violence that the Swedish Academy of Science awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature of 1958 to this solo bird, which received a cold reception in the Soviet Union.
Of course, doctor zhivago won the prize not only because of this ideological struggle. Times have changed. Today, the image of doctor zhivago is still moving, and his love entanglements with tonia and Lala are even more unforgettable. The Russian scenery, heavy snow, forest manor and their struggles described by writers also attract the sensitive hearts of hundreds of millions of readers around the world. This is the fundamental reason why movies of the same name are popular all over the world.
For the war, revolution and even counter-revolution in Russia at that time, zhivago always played the role of a doctor and a poet. He tried to observe his "case" calmly and rationally, but he was always involved. War makes people crazy and cold, which is fundamentally hostile to his poetic temperament and the duties of doctors. He saves people, but he can't protect the basic rights of individuals. Suffering made him yearn for happiness and simplicity, and also made him fall in love with the strong spirit of not being afraid of suffering. So much for his love with lesbians. Strength in suffering, pursuit in suffering and beauty in suffering are all the same wealth as lesbians. They are strong and alive, and they are persistent in love. War and political disputes have left them nowhere to escape, and their dream of seclusion in the countryside is even more touching. Doctor zhivago sang a sad song of a modern hermit.
It should be noted that the leap of the poet's thinking affects the compactness of the plot combination in the novel doctor zhivago, giving people a sense of disorder. But it is these sparks of inspiration that shine everywhere that expand the sensitivity and depth of thinking of the work, and finally make it an epic great work.
Reading suggestions
This book can be collected and read carefully. The images of zhivago and Lala are worth pondering. As a poet's narrative work, doctor zhivago has obvious poetic features, jumping plot structure, imagery and symbolism in detail description, which is intriguing.