Boris Pasternak
Boris Pasternak was a Russian poet and novelist, best known for *Doctor Zhivago* (1957), a sprawling novel of love and revolution that won the Nobel Prize in Literature but was banned in the Soviet Union.
Pasternak was forced to decline the prize under government pressure.
His earlier reputation rested on innovative, musical poetry: He writes like Pasternak.
- LaraFemale name, Latin origin
- love affairRomantic relationship, often intense
- samizdatClandestine dissident publishing
- Russian literatureFiction from that vast nation
- bookBound written work
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