Doctor Zhivago (novel)

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Russian novel historical novel novel romantic novel

Doctor Zhivago (novel) is Boris Pasternak’s epic 1957 Russian novel that follows the life and loves of a physician-poet amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath.

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Label	Occurrences
Doctor Zhivago	13
Doctor Zhivago (novel) canonical	4
Доктор Живаго	2
Boris Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago	1
Doctor Zhivago (published 1957 in Italian, 1958 in Russian abroad)	1
Zhivago	1
novel Doctor Zhivago	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Russian novel ⓘ historical novel ⓘ novel ⓘ romantic novel ⓘ
adaptedInto	Doctor Zhivago ⓘ surface form: Doctor Zhivago (1965 film) Doctor Zhivago (2002 TV serial) ⓘ surface form: Doctor Zhivago (television adaptations)
author	Boris Pasternak ⓘ
awarded	Nobel Prize in Literature ⓘ surface form: Nobel Prize in Literature (to Boris Pasternak)
awardYear	1958 Nobel Prize in Literature (to Boris Pasternak) ⓘ
bannedIn	Soviet Union ⓘ
banReason	perceived anti-Soviet content ⓘ
completedYear	1955 ⓘ
contains	cycle of poems attributed to Yuri Zhivago ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Soviet Union ⓘ
firstEnglishTranslationYear	1958 ⓘ
firstEnglishTranslator	Manya Harari ⓘ Max Hayward ⓘ
firstPublishedIn	Italy ⓘ
genre	historical fiction ⓘ political fiction ⓘ romance ⓘ
literaryMovement	20th-century Russian literature ⓘ
mainCharacter	Komarovsky ⓘ Larisa Antipova ⓘ Pasha Antipov ⓘ Tonya Gromeko ⓘ surface form: Tonia Gromeko Yuri Zhivago ⓘ
narrativeScope	life and loves of Yuri Zhivago ⓘ
notableEvent	smuggled out of the Soviet Union for publication ⓘ
notableFor	critical portrayal of the October Revolution and its aftermath ⓘ international bestseller status ⓘ role in Cold War cultural politics ⓘ
originalLanguage	Russian ⓘ
originalTitle	Doctor Zhivago (novel) self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Доктор Живаго
pageCountApprox	600 ⓘ
protagonistOccupation	physician ⓘ poet ⓘ
publicationYear	1957 ⓘ
publisherOfFirstEdition	Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore ⓘ
setInCountry	Russia ⓘ
setInPeriod	Russian Civil War ⓘ Russian Revolution ⓘ
structure	prose narrative followed by poems ⓘ
theme	art and poetry in times of turmoil ⓘ conflict between personal love and political ideology ⓘ impact of revolution on individual lives ⓘ moral choices under totalitarianism ⓘ
titleCharacter	Yuri Zhivago ⓘ