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by dang 4360 days ago
> Doctor Zhivago is a hauntingly beautiful work

Pasternak, of course, was above all a poet. If I recall correctly, his poet friends (especially Anna Akhmatova) reacted with dismay to his writing that novel at the end of his career—not for political reasons, but for artistic ones. That seems hard to fathom now.