Zhivago’s wife, Tonya, might be the most
interesting character in this lengthy novel. Too bad she is barely present.
What is the difference between this masterwork of 20th century
literature and Rosamund Pilcher’s books? As far as I know, the only ones are
that Pasternak’s book is set in Soviet Russia and that it criticizes the Soviet
system. This is praiseworthy, surely, but is it enough to justify the book’s
popularity? I’m not quite sure, although it definitely should be enough to
justify the view of Pasternak as a hero of the fight against totalitarianism.
I simply didn’t need those many pages of
Zhivago’s pointless principles. An autobiography of Pasternak would have been a
lot more interesting...
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