![]() ![]() And these individual things have since become of concern to all, and their works, like apples picked while they are green, have ripened of themselves, mellowing gradually and growing richer in meaning. Pushkin and Chekhov, right up to the end of their lives, were absorbed in the current, specific tasks imposed on them by their vocation as writers, and in the course of fulfilling these tasks they lived their lives, quietly, treating both their lives and their work as private, individual matters, of no concern to anyone else. Voskoboinikov the proofs of his little book on the land question, which. Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky looked restlessly for the meaning of life, and prepared for death and balanced accounts. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak A New Translation by Richard Pevear and. It isn’t that they didn’t think about these things, and to good effect, but to talk about such things seemed to them pretentious, presumptuous. ![]() In a burnt-out village he met Vassya Brykin, the young boy. ![]() Yury made much of his journey on foot, then completed it by train. ![]() Both are very shy, and Yury is dressed in rags. The plot of Doctor Zhivago is long and intricate. What I have come to like best in the whole of Russian literature is the childlike Russian quality of Pushkin and Chekhov, their modest reticence in such high-sounding matters as the ultimate purpose of mankind or their own salvation. Zhivago Background Summary Chapter 15: Conclusion Summary Yury appears in Moscow with a young boy. Doctor Zhivago is a novel by Boris Pasternak, first published in 1957 in Italy. ![]()
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