Tag: Haunting poetic characteristics: the dissection scene from Dr. Zhivago
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Haunting poetic characteristics: the dissection scene from Doctor Zhivago
Timo HannuHelsinki, Finland Doctor Zhivago, a novel by the Russian poet Boris Pasternak, tells the story of physician-poet Yura Zhivago during the turmoil of the first decades of the twentieth century in Russia. The character of Dr. Zhivago is portrayed as follows:1 “Though he was greatly drawn to art and history, he scarcely hesitated over…