Inspired Pen — A Literary Life

~David Lean’s Dr. Zhivago Poster~ 

Speaking of love, and this week being Valentine’s Week, here’s something to remember by.  This day, February 10 (1890), is the birthday of Boris Pasternak, the Russian poet and novelist who gave us that famous book Dr. Zhivago — made into a 1965 David Lean blockbuster film of the same title starring Omar Sharif as Dr Yuri Zhivago, a medical doctor and poet. Speaking of romance, this movie has full of it. Aside from the backdrop of the 1917 Russian Revoution, the story tells us of Zhivago (Omar Sharif) being torn between two women, Lara (Julie Christie) and Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin). Simply, the theme is about life. What subsequently follows is the Russian Civil War of 1918-1920.  Dr Zhivago has also been adapted into adaptations for television. 

For a biography of Boris Pasternak, check out this link.

Pasternak was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature for Dr Zhivago, but the Soviet authorities that time banned the book and made him denounce his Nobel Prize.

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