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Doctor Zhivago (/ ʒ ɪ ˈ v ɑː ɡ oʊ / zhiv-AH-goh; [1] Russian: До́ктор Жива́го, IPA: [ˈdoktər ʐɨˈvaɡə]) is a novel by Russian poet, author and composer Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy.
Summary Description Diagram of selected relationships in Doctor Zhivago (novel).svg A diagram of the main characters in the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, with selected relationships between those characters illustrated by colored lines.
The story, in all of its forms, describes the life of the fictional Russian physician and poet Yuri Zhivago and deals with love and loss during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and war. Adaptations
Yuri Andreievich Zhivago is the protagonist and title character of the 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. [ 1 ] Yuri Zhivago, a doctor and poet, is sensitive nearly to the point of mysticism .
Doctor Zhivago is one of the stillest motion pictures of all time, and an occasional bumpy train ride or crudely inserted cavalry charge only points up its essential immobility." [44] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The best one can say of Doctor Zhivago is that it is an honest failure. Boris Pasternak's sprawling, complex, elusive novel is ...
Doctor Zhivago, a 2002 British drama television series directed by Giacomo Campiotti with a screenplay by Andrew Davies; Doctor Zhivago, a 2011 musical composed by Lucy Simon, lyrics by Michael Korie and Amy Powers, and book by Michael Weller; Mademoiselle Zhivago, a 2010 album by Lara Fabian
His first full-scale translation, jointly with Manya Harari, was of Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago, a translation they began in 1957. Hayward had known Pasternak's family in Oxford and had once heard Pasternak read his poetry in Moscow in 1948. He received the PEN Translation Prize in 1971.
Robert Oxton Bolt CBE (15 August 1924 – 20 February 1995) was an English playwright and a screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and A Man for All Seasons, the latter two of which won him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.