帕斯捷尔纳克和“《日瓦戈医生》事件”

Pasternak and the Doctor Zhivago Incident

帕斯捷尔纳克是20世纪苏联杰出的诗人、小说家。他的诗歌和散文创作成就卓荦。长篇小说《日瓦戈医生》是一部对历史进行回顾和反思、控诉暴力和呼唤人性的杰作。小说描写了十月革命前后一系列重大历史事件,以及主人公日瓦戈医生对这些历史事件所持的态度和作出的反应。小说在苏联国内遭到严厉谴责和批判,而在西方世界却受到高度赞赏,并被瑞典文学院授予诺贝尔文学奖,从而在苏联掀起轩然大波,进而演变成具有国际影响的"《日瓦戈医生》事件"。

Pasternak was an outstanding Soviet poet and novelist in the 20th century. His poetry and prose makes for a great deal. His novel Doctor Zhivago is a masterpiece of review and reflection of history, violence and the call of humanity. The novel describes a series of important historical events before and after the October Revolution, and the protagonist Doctor Zhivago's attitude and response to these historical events. In the Soviet Union, the novel was condemned and critical. But in the western world, it was highly appreciated, and it was awarded to the Nobel Prize for literature by the Swedish academy of arts, which created a firestorm in the Soviet Union, and evolved into an international event called the Doctor Zhivago Incident.