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The novel is the life story of Yuri Zhivago, a descendant of one of the famous Russian entrepreneurs of the late 19th century. Yuri was left an orphan at the age of 10 and grew up in the family of Professor Gromeko, his distant relative. Yura studied at the university at the Faculty of Medicine and once met with the famous lawyer Komarovsky in St. Petersburg. Komarovsky interested the young man with his consumerist and adventurous view of the world. Yuri learned that Komarovsky was to blame for the death of his father.

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Yuri grew up in the same house as Tonya Gordon. When the time came, the young people fell in love with each other, and Yuri proposed to Tonya. Tony's mother blessed the newlyweds. The events of the First World War are approaching...

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In 1914, Yuri Zhivago was called to the front as a regimental doctor. Tonya gave birth to a son, Sashenka, after his departure. At the front, Yuri meets a girl whom he knew as a student. Larisa Antipova, leaving her little daughter in the care of her aunt, also joined the ambulance train. Yuri and Lara feel support and spiritual closeness in each other, they become friends.

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After being seriously wounded, Zhivago returns home to St. Petersburg. There is no heating or electricity in the city. Revolutionary events forced Yuri and his family and his father-in-law Alexander Gromeko to go to the Urals, where Gromeko had an estate and a house. We drove to the Urals for almost a month. In the village of Varykino it was still possible to survive and wait out the difficult time...

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Zhivago sometimes sees patients, and in his free moments writes poetry, which he began composing as a student. Sometimes he has to go to the nearest town of Yuryatin to buy medicines and drugs at the pharmacy and go to the library to buy books. One day in the library he meets Larisa Antipova. Larisa and her daughter Katya live in Yuryatin.

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The old feelings flare up between Yuri and Larisa. And although Yuri understands that he is deceiving Tonya, he also cannot imagine his life without Larisa... One day, returning from Yuryatin, Yuri was stopped by armed men. The civil war reached the Urals. In the Red Army detachment of Mikulitsyn, where Zhivago was taken, typhus and dysentery were rampant, and there were many wounded. Yuri Zhivago had to be a military doctor for two long years. They watched him, fearing that Yuri, who did not share the views of the Bolsheviks, would leave the detachment...

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One winter, Yuri still managed to escape. He barely got to Yuryatin and learned from Larisa that Alexander Gordon and Tonya managed to move abroad with the help of friends. Yuri understands that he will never see his wife and children again...

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For some time, Yuri, Larisa and Katenka live in Yuryatin. Every day they live as if it were their last, because both Yuri and Larisa could be arrested... Suddenly Komarovsky appears. He is invited to work by the Soviet government and travels to the Far East. As he says, it may be possible to go to China. Komarovsky insists that Larisa and Katenka go with him: this is the only way to avoid arrest.

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Yuri releases Larisa, believing that their lives are now safe. Zhivago himself moves to Moscow. He is interrogated several times, but is released. Yuri changes jobs: he cuts wood, works as a stoker, works as a janitor... In his free time, he continues to write poetry. Yuri becomes close to a young woman, the daughter of a former janitor, Marina, and Marina becomes his wife.

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One happy day, Yuri is searched for by his brother Evgraf, who quickly went uphill under Soviet rule. Evgraf is a military man, he has connections in Moscow. He helps Zhivago rent decent housing and find a job at the hospital. It would seem that life is finally getting better... However, returning home one August day, Yuri Andreevich died on a tram from a heart attack.

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Chalk, chalk all over the earth, to all limits. The candle was burning on the table, The candle was burning. Like a swarm of midges in summer Flies towards the flame, Flakes from the yard fly to the window frame...

An unexpectedly large number of people came to say goodbye to Yuri... After Yuri’s death, his brother Evgraf Andreevich published a collection of Zhivago’s poems.

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B. Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago"

Pasternak began writing a novel in the center of which the revolutionary era should be in the winter of 1917-1918 and did not part with this plan for several decades. The fate of Doctor Zhivago is dramatic: the novel was completed in 1955 and sent to the New World magazine, but was rejected because it was seen as a distorted image of the revolution and the place of the intelligentsia in relation to it.

However, the novel was published in 1957 in Italy, then translated into many languages ​​of the world, and in 1958 the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for outstanding achievements in modern lyric poetry and in the traditional field of great Russian prose.”

In his homeland, Pasternak began to be actively persecuted: he was expelled from the membership of the Writers' Union, a whole stream of insults and accusations was organized in newspapers, magazines, and on the radio, he was forced to refuse the Nobel Prize, and demands were persistently heard to leave his native land. “I am connected with Russia by birth, life, work. I don’t think of my destiny separately and outside of it,” Pasternak decisively declared.

Nobel Prize. I disappeared, like an animal in a pen, Somewhere there are people, freedom, light, And behind me there is the noise of a chase, I have no way to freedom. Dark forest and the shore of a pond, Spruce felled logs. The path is cut off from everywhere. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. What kind of dirty trick have I done? Am I a murderer and a villain? I made the whole world cry over the beauty of my land. But even so, almost at the grave, I believe the time will come - The power of meanness and malice will be overcome by the spirit of good. 1959

This whole story crippled the writer. On May 30, 1960, Pasternak passed away. Doctor Zhivago was published in its homeland only in 1988, 33 years after it was written. Why did the novel “Doctor Zhivago” provoke such a reaction from the authorities?

Outwardly, the story is quite traditional: it tells about the fate of a person in the era of revolution. But the events of the novel are given through the perception of the main character; this subjective perception constitutes the plot. The novel did not fit into the schemes of socialist realism, which presupposes an “active life position.” The fate of a person, according to Pasternak, is not directly related to the historical era in which he happened to live. The main character of the novel, Yuri Zhivago, does not try to fight the circumstances, but also does not adapt to them, remaining himself under any conditions, maintaining his point of view.

How are historical events refracted in the perception of Yuri Zhivago? Initially, the hero accepts the October events of 1917 with delight. Yuri Zhivago enthusiastically says to Larisa in a boyish way: “Just think what time it is! And you and I live in these days! After all, such an unprecedented thing happens only once in eternity. Think about it: the roof was torn off from all over Russia, and we and all the people found ourselves in the open air. And there is no one to spy on us. Freedom!". Soon the hero realizes that instead of the emancipation of man promised by the first revolutionary actions, the new government has placed man in a rigid framework, while imposing his own understanding of freedom and happiness. But you cannot force people to be happy; there is no single recipe.

What happens to Zhivago during the Civil War? During the Civil War, Zhivago ends up in a partisan detachment. Pasternak conveys tragedy not through the description of brutal battles, but through the perception of events by the main character. Human carnage is ridiculous. The only battle in which the doctor captured by the partisans takes part is proof of this absurdity. He has to kill those whom he considered his own. After the war, Zhivago returns to Moscow and finds himself not at the court of the new government. He is not able to adapt, to change himself. Pasternak sees the highest value in a person, his personality, his private life. The only important “salt of the earth” is the immortal soul of man.

What attracts the hero of the novel Yuri Zhivago? Pasternak's hero, Yuri Zhivago, attracts with his openness, ability to love and appreciate life, insecurity, which is not a sign of lack of will, but the ability to think and doubt. The hero is an expression of the author’s moral ideal: he is talented, smart, kind, he maintains freedom of spirit, he sees the world in his own way and does not adapt to anyone, he is an individual.

The novel “Doctor Zhivago” consists of 2 parts: prosaic and poetic. 16 parts of the novel tell about people, events, big history, and the tragic fates of Zhivago, Tony, Lara and other heroes. It also shows a multifaceted image of Russia in the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. In the last, 17th part, all this extensive material seems to be repeated again, but this time in poetry. Poetry and prose in B. Pasternak’s novel form a unity and are, in fact, a new genre form.

Hamlet The noise fell silent. I went on stage. Leaning against the door frame, I catch in a distant echo what will happen in my lifetime. The darkness of the night is pointed at me with a thousand binoculars on the axis. If only you can, Abba Father, carry this cup past. I love your stubborn plan And I agree to play this role. But now there is another drama, And this time fire me. But the schedule of actions has been thought out, And the end of the path is inevitable. I am alone, everything is drowning in pharisaism. Living life is not a field to cross. 1946

The lyrical hero of B. Pasternak’s poem of the same name is brought closer to the hero of Shakespeare’s tragedy by the same desire to make his life choice “in a mortal battle with a whole world of troubles.” He, like Hamlet, feels the break in the “connecting thread” of times and his responsibility for its connection. The choice of path was made in favor of Christian ethics: I am going towards suffering and death, but in no case - lies, untruth, lawlessness and unbelief.

Chalk, chalk all over the earth, to all limits. The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning. Like a swarm of midges in the summer Flying towards the flame, flakes from the yard flew towards the window frame. The snowstorm sculpted circles and arrows on the glass. The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning. Shadows lay on the illuminated ceiling. Crossing of arms, crossing of legs, crossing of fates. And two shoes fell with a thud to the floor. And the wax dripped from the night light onto the dress. And everything was lost in the gray and white snowy darkness. The candle was burning on the table, The candle was burning. The candle was blown from the corner, and the heat of temptation rose up like an angel. Two wings Cross-shaped. It was light all month in February, and every now and then the candle was burning on the table, the candle was burning. Winter night

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Pasternak began writing a novel in the center of which the revolutionary era should be in the winter of 1917-1918 and did not part with this plan for several decades. The fate of Doctor Zhivago is dramatic: the novel was completed in 1955 and sent to the New World magazine, but was rejected because it was seen as a distorted image of the revolution and the place of the intelligentsia in relation to it.

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However, the novel was published in 1957 in Italy, then translated into many languages ​​of the world, and in 1958 the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for outstanding achievements in modern lyric poetry and in the traditional field of great Russian prose.”

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In his homeland, Pasternak began to be actively persecuted: he was expelled from the membership of the Writers' Union, a whole stream of insults and accusations was organized in newspapers, magazines, and on the radio, he was forced to refuse the Nobel Prize, and demands were persistently heard to leave his native land. “I am connected with Russia by birth, life, work. I don’t think of my destiny separately and outside of it,” Pasternak decisively declared.

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Nobel Prize. I was lost, like an animal in a pen, Somewhere there are people, freedom, light, And behind me there is the noise of a chase, I have no way to be free. Dark forest and the shore of a pond, Fir trees with a fallen log. The path is cut off from everywhere. Come what may, all the same. What kind of dirty trick have I done, Am I a murderer and a villain? I made the whole world cry Over the beauty of my land. But even so, almost at the grave, I believe the time will come - The power of meanness and malice will be overcome by the spirit of good. 1959

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Outwardly, the story is quite traditional: it tells about the fate of a person in the era of revolution. But the events of the novel are given through the perception of the main character; this subjective perception constitutes the plot. The novel did not fit into the schemes of socialist realism, which presupposes an “active life position.” The fate of a person, according to Pasternak, is not directly related to the historical era in which he happened to live. The main character of the novel, Yuri Zhivago, does not try to fight the circumstances, but also does not adapt to them, remaining himself under any conditions, maintaining his point of view.

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How are historical events refracted in the perception of Yuri Zhivago? Initially, the hero accepts the October events of 1917 with delight. Yuri Zhivago enthusiastically says to Larisa in a boyish way: “Just think what time it is! And you and I live in these days! After all, such an unprecedented thing happens only once in eternity. Think about it: the roof was torn off from all over Russia, and we and all the people found ourselves in the open air. And there is no one to spy on us. Freedom!". Soon the hero realizes that instead of the emancipation of man promised by the first revolutionary actions, the new government has placed man in a rigid framework, while imposing his own understanding of freedom and happiness. But you cannot force people to be happy; there is no single recipe.

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What happens to Zhivago during the Civil War? During the Civil War, Zhivago ends up in a partisan detachment. Pasternak conveys tragedy not through the description of brutal battles, but through the perception of events by the main character. Human carnage is ridiculous. The only battle in which the doctor captured by the partisans takes part is proof of this absurdity. He has to kill those whom he considered his own. After the war, Zhivago returns to Moscow and finds himself not at the court of the new government. He is not able to adapt, to change himself. Pasternak sees the highest value in a person, his personality, his private life. The only important “salt of the earth” is the immortal soul of man.

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The novel “Doctor Zhivago” consists of 2 parts: prosaic and poetic. 16 parts of the novel tell about people, events, big history, and the tragic fates of Zhivago, Tony, Lara and other heroes. It also shows a multifaceted image of Russia in the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. In the last, 17th part, all this extensive material seems to be repeated again, but this time in poetry. Poetry and prose in B. Pasternak’s novel form a unity and are, in fact, a new genre form.

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Hamlet The noise fell silent. I went out onto the stage. Leaning against the door frame, I catch in the distant echo what will happen in my lifetime. The darkness of the night is pointed at me with a thousand binoculars on the axis. If only it is possible, Abba Father, carry this cup past. I love your stubborn plan And I agree to play this role. But now there is another drama, And this time I am fired. But the order of actions has been thought out, And the end of the path is inevitable. I am alone, everything is drowning in pharisaism. Living life is not a field to cross. 1946

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WINTER NIGHT It was snowy, snowy all over the earth, all over the place. The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning. Like a swarm of midges in summer Flies towards the flame, Flakes from the yard flew to the window frame. The blizzard sculpted circles and arrows on the glass. The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning. Shadows were lying on the illuminated ceiling. Crossing of arms, crossing of legs, crossing of fates. And two shoes fell with a thud on the floor. And the wax dripped from the night light with tears onto the dress. And everything was lost in the snowy haze, gray and white. The candle burned on the table, The candle was burning. There was a blow on the candle from the corner, And the heat of temptation rose up like an angel. Two wings Cross-shaped. It was snowy all month in February, And every now and then The candle was burning on the table, The candle was burning.

Students, using a presentation on their own (remotely), can get acquainted with the history of the creation of B. L. Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago”, as well as with the variations of its title, features of the composition, features of the dialogues, the writer’s view of history, the system of characters in the novel, his main motives.

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Stages of work 1917 – 1918 First plan 1945 - 1955 Work on the novel November 1957 The novel was published in Italy, then translated into many languages ​​October 1958 B. L. Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for outstanding achievements in modern lyric poetry and in the traditional field of great Russian literature." The writer was expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers, persecuted in the press in 1988. The novel was published in Russia.

“This piece will be an expression of my views on art, on the gospel, on the life of man in history and much more.” “Poetry and prose are not separable from each other - poles, these principles do not exist separately” B. L. Pasternak

The idea of ​​the novel Affirmation of life Affirmation of the value of human existence Victory of love over time, blows of fate

Time frame of the novel The plot of the novel covers the first 50 years of our century. The plot of the novel begins in 1902, when Yuri Zhivago is 10 years old. The hero's life ends in 1929 from a broken heart. The plot of the novel covers the war years and the first post-war years.

Variants of the name The candle was burning Boys and girls (from Blok’s poem “Verbochki”) Norms of new nobility Zhivult’s notes History of the living spirit There will be no death Doctor Zhivago (1948)

Doctor Zhivago Yuri (George) is the winner of the Dragon, evil, and affirmer of good. Zhivago is the Old Church Slavonic form of the adjective “alive”. Theme of life. Doctor's profession. The theme of humanism. Ophthalmology is the science of vision. Yuri Zhivago was famous for his good intuition when making a diagnosis. The Doctor loses socially, but wins spiritually.

Form of narration The events of the novel (Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, World War I, Civil War, collectivization, Great Patriotic War) are depicted through the perception of the main character (a doctor and a poet), as well as characters close to him. The narrative is structured according to the laws of lyric poetry: the focus is on the hero’s spiritual life. This is a symbolist novel. Pasternak abandons the traditions of the psychological novel (Lermontov, Turgenev, Dostoevsky). An important role is played by the poems of Doctor Zhivago, highlighted in a separate part after the epilogue. In them, the reader learns about the inner life of the hero, the author’s idea - the triumph of the spirit of the “living”.

Composition Beginning - the motive of death “They walked and walked and sang “Eternal Memory”... The curious entered the procession and asked: “Who is being buried?” They were answered: “Zhivago.” “The Poems of Yuri Zhivago” is a separate part of the novel, with the help of which Pasternak takes the narrative to the level of eternity. The finale is the poem “Garden of Gethsemane” - the motif of resurrection, eternal life: I will go down to the grave and on the third day I will rise, And, like rafts floated down the river, To Me for judgment, like the barges of a caravan, Centuries will float out of the darkness.

Dialogues Because the novel is structured according to the laws of lyricism, the dialogues of the characters are important (the tradition of Dostoevsky, Chekhov), which often turn into monologues in which the characters express their attitude to a particular issue. Events are depicted through the perception of the characters

A look at history “He (Yuri Zhivago) thought about several existences developing side by side, moving at different speeds next to each other, and about when someone’s fate overtakes the fate of another in life, and who outlives whom.” Numerous coincidences, accidents - signals from the unknowable world In Pasternak's view, life is like a river that carries human destinies. People obey the movement of life. Nature, art, history are inseparable components of life.

System of characters Yuri Zhivogo Son, nephew, father, husband, son-in-law, brother, friend, lover, doctor, philosopher, poet. Strelnikov (Pavel Antipov) is the hero-antagonist. The opposition between the active and contemplative principles of life. Both die. Antonina is a wife, mother. Lara Guichard - love, mother. The symbol of Russia: powerful and weak-willed, powerful and catastrophic. Larisa is a seagull. Lara is a symbol of Russia.

Main motives: Road, path. Life's road. Way of the Cross. Winter. Blizzard (Pushkin, Blok, Bulgakov) Art History. Revolution Christian motives (life and death, choice, resurrection, motherhood, Orthodox holidays). This is the novel most open to Christian culture. Candle metaphor

Orthodox holidays Yuri's mother died on the eve of the Intercession, Yuri and his uncle go to Voskoboinikov on the day of Our Lady of Kazan Years of the Civil War: “Winter was at its end, Passionate, the end of Lent” Thus, Pasternak builds the plot of the novel on the scale of eternity.

“And you keep burning and warming, my ardent candle!” An important symbol of the novel is the candle “The light of the full moon covered the snowy clearing with the tactile viscosity of egg white or glue white. The luxury of the frosty night was indescribable. The doctor had peace in his soul. He returned to the bright, warmly heated room and began to write.” (“Doctor Zhivago” part 7)

“The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning...” “Winter Night” is a poem about the love of two people, the heroes of the novel “Doctor Zhivago” - Lara and Yura. Their love burns like a candle, in spite of, or against the backdrop of, social blizzards and revolution. This poem is about the love of any other lovers who have “crossed” their destinies despite the “blizzards” of life.

Relationship with other novels by M.A. Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”: 1. Christian motifs 2. composition “a novel within a novel” 3. panorama of Moscow 4. image of the creator M.A. Sholokhov “Quiet Don”: 1. image of historical cataclysms 2. the fate of the hero against the backdrop of these cataclysms 3. affirmation of the intrinsic value of life

Presentation "B. Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago" talks about when and under what conditions a given writer began to write a book. The fate of the novel was very difficult, since the author worked on it for more than ten years, but after this time he could not publish it due to ideological differences. But this was not the reason for the author to release the novel in other countries. Students will be able to find out where Doctor Zhivago was first published and what happened to the author in his homeland.

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B. Pasternak "Doctor Zhivago"

Pasternak began writing a novel in the center of which the revolutionary era should be in the winter of 1917-1918 and did not part with this plan for several decades. The fate of Doctor Zhivago is dramatic: the novel was completed in 1955 and sent to the New World magazine, but was rejected because it was seen as a distorted image of the revolution and the place of the intelligentsia in relation to it.

However, the novel was published in 1957 in Italy, then translated into many languages ​​of the world, and in 1958 the author was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for outstanding achievements in modern lyric poetry and in the traditional field of great Russian prose.”

In his homeland, Pasternak began to be actively persecuted: he was expelled from the membership of the Writers' Union, a whole stream of insults and accusations was organized in newspapers, magazines, and on the radio, he was forced to refuse the Nobel Prize, and demands were persistently heard to leave his native land. “I am connected with Russia by birth, life, work. I don’t think of my destiny separately and outside of it,” Pasternak decisively declared.

Nobel Prize. I disappeared, like an animal in a pen, Somewhere there are people, freedom, light, And behind me there is the noise of a chase, I have no way to freedom. Dark forest and the shore of a pond, Spruce felled logs. The path is cut off from everywhere. Whatever happens, it doesn't matter. What kind of dirty trick have I done? Am I a murderer and a villain? I made the whole world cry over the beauty of my land. But even so, almost at the grave, I believe the time will come - The power of meanness and malice will be overcome by the spirit of good. 1959

This whole story crippled the writer. On May 30, 1960, Pasternak passed away. Doctor Zhivago was published in its homeland only in 1988, 33 years after it was written. Why did the novel “Doctor Zhivago” provoke such a reaction from the authorities?

Outwardly, the story is quite traditional: it tells about the fate of a person in the era of revolution. But the events of the novel are given through the perception of the main character; this subjective perception constitutes the plot. The novel did not fit into the schemes of socialist realism, which presupposes an “active life position.” The fate of a person, according to Pasternak, is not directly related to the historical era in which he happened to live. The main character of the novel, Yuri Zhivago, does not try to fight the circumstances, but also does not adapt to them, remaining himself under any conditions, maintaining his point of view.

How are historical events refracted in the perception of Yuri Zhivago? Initially, the hero accepts the October events of 1917 with delight. Yuri Zhivago enthusiastically says to Larisa in a boyish way: “Just think what time it is! And you and I live in these days! After all, such an unprecedented thing happens only once in eternity. Think about it: the roof was torn off from all over Russia, and we and all the people found ourselves in the open air. And there is no one to spy on us. Freedom!". Soon the hero realizes that instead of the emancipation of man promised by the first revolutionary actions, the new government has placed man in a rigid framework, while imposing his own understanding of freedom and happiness. But you cannot force people to be happy; there is no single recipe.

What happens to Zhivago during the Civil War? During the Civil War, Zhivago ends up in a partisan detachment. Pasternak conveys tragedy not through the description of brutal battles, but through the perception of events by the main character. Human carnage is ridiculous. The only battle in which the doctor captured by the partisans takes part is proof of this absurdity. He has to kill those whom he considered his own. After the war, Zhivago returns to Moscow and finds himself not at the court of the new government. He is not able to adapt, to change himself. Pasternak sees the highest value in a person, his personality, his private life. The only important “salt of the earth” is the immortal soul of man.

What attracts the hero of the novel Yuri Zhivago? Pasternak's hero, Yuri Zhivago, attracts with his openness, ability to love and appreciate life, insecurity, which is not a sign of lack of will, but the ability to think and doubt. The hero is an expression of the author’s moral ideal: he is talented, smart, kind, he maintains freedom of spirit, he sees the world in his own way and does not adapt to anyone, he is an individual.

The novel “Doctor Zhivago” consists of 2 parts: prosaic and poetic. 16 parts of the novel tell about people, events, big history, and the tragic fates of Zhivago, Tony, Lara and other heroes. It also shows a multifaceted image of Russia in the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. In the last, 17th part, all this extensive material seems to be repeated again, but this time in poetry. Poetry and prose in B. Pasternak’s novel form a unity and are, in fact, a new genre form.

Hamlet The noise fell silent. I went on stage. Leaning against the door frame, I catch in a distant echo what will happen in my lifetime. The darkness of the night is pointed at me with a thousand binoculars on the axis. If only you can, Abba Father, carry this cup past. I love your stubborn plan And I agree to play this role. But now there is another drama, And this time fire me. But the schedule of actions has been thought out, And the end of the path is inevitable. I am alone, everything is drowning in pharisaism. Living life is not a field to cross. 1946

The lyrical hero of B. Pasternak’s poem of the same name is brought closer to the hero of Shakespeare’s tragedy by the same desire to make his life choice “in a mortal battle with a whole world of troubles.” He, like Hamlet, feels the break in the “connecting thread” of times and his responsibility for its connection. The choice of path was made in favor of Christian ethics: I am going towards suffering and death, but in no case - lies, untruth, lawlessness and unbelief.

Chalk, chalk all over the earth, to all limits. The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning. Like a swarm of midges in the summer Flying towards the flame, flakes from the yard flew towards the window frame. The snowstorm sculpted circles and arrows on the glass. The candle was burning on the table. The candle was burning. Shadows lay on the illuminated ceiling. Crossing of arms, crossing of legs, crossing of fates. And two shoes fell with a thud to the floor. And the wax dripped from the night light onto the dress. And everything was lost in the gray and white snowy darkness. The candle was burning on the table, The candle was burning. The candle was blown from the corner, and the heat of temptation rose up like an angel. Two wings Cross-shaped. It was light all month in February, and every now and then the candle was burning on the table, the candle was burning. Winter night,