Whose story is this? Guinness narrates, but we see a great many events to which his character isn’t privy, and the point of view bops from Zhivago (Omar Sharif), to Lara (Julie Christie with 1960s hair) to her fiance (Tom Courtenay). Things pick up when Alec Guinness as Zhivago’s brother, a post-war USSR apparatchik searching for his niece, says: “There were children in those days who lived off human flesh.”Īnd then we plunge into a three-hour flashback, and it’s downhill all the way, with a complete absence of cannibal children. What can possibly go wrong?ĭoctor Zhivago begins and I stare for what feels like hours at the word OVERTURE while Maurice Jarre’s Oscar-winning, balalaika-heavy score reminds me how Lara’s Theme has always set my teeth on edge.

The thesis aims to provide a profound description of major vocabulary patterns in Zhivago’s poems and reveal their correspondence on imaginary level with Pasternak’s poetic vision and literary tradition in general represented by the major poets who also might have influenced the poetic language of the cycle.So what better time than lockdown for 200 minutes of comfort bingeing on one of the top 10 highest-grossing films (adjusted for inflation) of all time? Star-crossed lovers shivering under furs in an epic romance against a backdrop of Russian revolution? I anticipate the political sweep of Reds combined with the romantic tragedy of The English Patient. Despite the fact that the author sought to separate himself from the protagonist, the stylistic eclecticism of Zhivago’s cycle appears to be the reflection of his own artistic method that manifested the inseparability of every 'high' and 'low' aspect of the human and world existence.

Lexico-phraseological analysis of texts marked with dense usage of vocabulary of lower layers (including idioms, colloquialisms, professional jargon and vulgarisms) reveals a number of consistent lexis patterns in the poems. Though the cycle’s poetics has been thoroughly studied in the historical context of the novel taking into the account its plot as well, the language and the stylistics of the poems have never been in the focus of attentions as complex system. The study discusses the distinguishing lexical characteristics of Poems by Yuri Zhivago from the last chapter of the novel Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.

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