Doctor Zhivago as a historical novel
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Doctor Zhivago as a historical novel
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Coming to work on “Doctor Zhivago”, Boris Pasternak repeatedly stressed that he wants to capture the course of Russian history of the early XX century. What are the reference points that define the picture of the era in this novel? What sources used Pasternak and who can be called the prototypes of the heroes of the novel? On what samples of genre tradition did he rely?
Konstantin Polivanov’s book is an attempt to reconstruct both the history of the plan of Doctor Zhivago and the process of formation of the writer’s historiosophical views. The author demonstrates Pasternak’s work with historical material, analyzes the complex game with time and the poetics of anachronisms in the novel, marking the onset of the “years of timelessness” in post-revolutionary Russia.
K. Polivanov focuses his attention on the book of Zhivago poems, which, according to the researcher, overcome timelessness, restoring historical time. Like the novel behind these poems, they testify to the “freedom” that will inevitably come to post-war Moscow. Konstantin Polivanov is a philologist, professor at the HSE, the author of numerous works on the life and works of Boris Pasternak. The book is based on a thesis defended at the University of Tartu (2015).
Konstantin Polivanov’s book is an attempt to reconstruct both the history of the plan of Doctor Zhivago and the process of formation of the writer’s historiosophical views. The author demonstrates Pasternak’s work with historical material, analyzes the complex game with time and the poetics of anachronisms in the novel, marking the onset of the “years of timelessness” in post-revolutionary Russia.
K. Polivanov focuses his attention on the book of Zhivago poems, which, according to the researcher, overcome timelessness, restoring historical time. Like the novel behind these poems, they testify to the “freedom” that will inevitably come to post-war Moscow. Konstantin Polivanov is a philologist, professor at the HSE, the author of numerous works on the life and works of Boris Pasternak. The book is based on a thesis defended at the University of Tartu (2015).
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