Doctor Zhivago

Published in 1957, it is one of the great novels of the 20th century. A literary testament to human dignity in times of historical collapse.

Through the life of the doctor and poet Yuri Zhivago, Pasternak portrays the Russian Revolution and its consequences. Zhivago and Lara. A love story. A meditation on individual freedom, faith, and the role of the artist in a world dominated by ideology.

The ideal, survival, duty, desire, the collective, the intimate.

Banned in the Soviet Union at the time of its publication, the novel became a symbol of resistance.

Boris Pasternak (1890–1960) was born in Moscow, into a family of artists and intellectuals, and was initially recognized as a poet before turning to prose. His writing, of extraordinary moral and aesthetic density, seeks to reconcile the lyrical impulse with philosophical reflection. Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, he was "forbidden" by the Soviet authorities, making him a symbol of creative freedom.

His work remains one of the purest expressions of individual conscience in the whirlwind of history..