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Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago (1957) Unabridged

Read By Philip Madoc (1995) | MP3 96kbps | 18CDs | 20Hrs 45Mins | 700Mbs

Indexed in 3-4 minutes sections

Doctor Zhivago, one of the world's greatest novels, evokes the experience of Russia during the first half of the 20th century. It is a vast panorama of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution of the age seen through the eyes of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, who must come to terms with both the new world and his new embittered self…

"Although the historic events in Russia from 1903 to 1943 form the chaotic background of the story, it's the human drama as seen through the eyes of Yurii Zhivago that gives it meaning....With the eloquence of Philip Madoc as inspiration, a dedicated listener will be privileged to experience the full power of one of the great books of this century."

Although it contains passages written in the 1910s and 1920s, Doctor Zhivago was not completed until 1956. The novel was submitted to the journal Novy mir and rejected because of Pasternak's political viewpoint opposed by the Soviet authorities. The author, like Dr Zhivago, showed more concern with the welfare of individuals than with the welfare of society. Soviet censors construed some passages as anti-Marxist. There are implied criticisms of Stalinism and references to prison camps. In 1957, the Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli smuggled the book manuscript from the Soviet Union and simultaneously published editions in both Russian and Italian in Milan, Italy. The next year, it was published in English, (translated from the Russian by Manya Harari and Max Hayward) and was eventually published in a total of eighteen different languages. The publication of this novel led partly to Pasternak's being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. The Soviet government asked the committee not to award him the prize. Pasternak rejected the Nobel Prize in order to prevent a scandal in the Soviet Union. Boris Pasternak died on 30 May 1960, of natural causes.

Doctor Zhivago was finally published in the Soviet Union in 1988, in the pages of Novy mir, although earlier samizdat editions existed.

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