Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago.
Pantheon Books, 2010. First printing. Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, with an introduction by Richard Pevear. 9780307377692 xxii/513 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.75", is bound in textured black paper spine and covers, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition. Dust jacket displays mild rubbing to covers, and wear at top/bottom of spine panel and at outside corners. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"Boris Pasternak’s widely acclaimed novel comes gloriously to life in a magnificent new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the award-winning translators of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," and to whom, The New York Review of Books declared, “the English-speaking world is indebted.” First published in Italy in 1957 amid international controversy—the novel was banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, and Pasternak declined the Nobel Prize a year later under intense pressure from Soviet authorities—"Doctor Zhivago" is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago’s love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain and chaos of those cataclysmic times. Stunningly rendered in the spirit of Pasternak’s original—resurrecting his style, rhythms, voicings, and tone—and including an introduction, textual annotations, and a translators’ note, this edition of "Doctor Zhivago" is destined to become the definitive English translation of our time."