Доктор Живаго

Author	Boris Pasternak
Genre	Fiction, Novel
Original Language	Russian
First published	1957-11-15
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Notes	Доктор Живаго (English: Doctor Zhivago) is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy as Il dottor Živago. The novel is named after its protagonist, Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, and takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II. Due to the author's independent-minded stance on the October Revolution, Doctor Zhivago was refused publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the manuscript was smuggled to Milan and published in 1957. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature the following year, an event which embarrassed and enraged the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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