Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, another trend-setting Russian author. It is about Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, whose life is marked by two prominent events-the Russian Revolution and the First World War.
The novel captures the journey of Yuri Zhivago, the son of a wealthy man who eventually becomes addicted to alcohol and later takes his own life. After his mother’s death Yuri was cared for by his uncle Kolya. He becomes a doctor and a writer and serves in World War I. He marries Tonya and they have two children, but he falls in love with Lara while working in a military hospital.
It talks about the effects of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath on a bourgeois family.
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