So there definitely was some intrigue in Zhivago, and those parts I really enjoyed. For me, the doomed love of Yuri and Lara was waaaay less interesting than learning more about World War I, the Russian Revolution, shady lawyers, and double-agent revolutionaries who give up and blow their brains out. Zhivago struggles to find food, protect his family, and condemns the October Revolution, much to the chagrin of the State, in which no one could possibly be struggling to the degree he is. It's also the story of how Zhivago's author, Boris Pasternak, was threatened with.well, all the things Soviets who ran afoul of the State in the 1950s were threatened with.īut why was Zhivago so controversial in Soviet Russia? Apparently, simply because it pointed out how everything wasn't perfect. Her novel is the story of how Zhivago came to be published after it was banned in the Soviet Union. But so, the reason I read Zhivago, beyond just the goal of reading more classics and more novels in translation this year, is because I wanted to know why it was so controversial.and also I was really intrigued by Lara Prescott's novel, The Secrets We Kept.
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