[Доктор Живаго]
Year:
1957
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Vintage
Year of publication:
1958
Pages:
704
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
The life of a fictional Russian doctor, Yuri Zhivago, who deals with love and loss during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and subsequent war. The plot is complicated and confusing to the casual reader.
Boris Pasternak was born in Russia in 1890 and died in 1960. A renowned poet and writer, he refused to accept the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. He had been a witness of the Russian Revolution and noted the actions of the Russian intelligentsia before, during and after it. The only country that would publish the work was Italy, with the USSR refusing to do so.
Author: Cliff Cobb, United Kingdom
Update on: May 2026