Tapa blanda, 704 páginas
Idioma English
Publicado el 4 de octubre de 2011 por Vintage, Penguin Random House.
Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara, the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Pevear and Volokhonsky masterfully restore the spirit of Pasternak’s original—his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—in this beautiful translation of a classic of world literature.
Me alegro de haberlo leído, aunque de no ser por la película, no lo hubiera hecho. Ciclópeo, me costó acabarlo, mas, a lo largo de sus páginas, una vez aminorada la confusión inical que produce, se desliza cara adelante a veces de forma suave, a veces, intempestuosa, pero siempre en una huída hacia el más allá que consigue arrastrar.
