《日瓦戈医生》是一部在西方获得高度评价的作品。内容上他是一部知识分子的命运史，小说涉及了1903年夏到40年代末近半个世纪的俄国历史上的重大事件，触及了道德、政治、哲学、美学、社会、宗教等一系列问题。作者帕斯捷尔纳克是俄国四位诺贝尔文学奖金的获得者之一，他的作品充满了浓重的抒情气息，作者并不用一般叙事小说中眼花缭乱的情节取悦读者，也没有咄咄逼人的语气，但读来却能给人以心灵的震撼和对命运的思索！
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张建华
帕斯捷尔纳克和他的长篇小说《日瓦戈医生》
帕斯捷尔纳克是俄国四位诺贝尔文学奖金的获得者之一。他有着一颗十分善感的心灵。他既是一个情感歌者的诗人，更是一位人生鼓手的作家。无论是前者，还是后者，他始终都在追求着良心的真纯和精神的不朽。他说：“书是千个燃烧着的，冒着烟的良心的立体块，此外便什么都不是了。没有了良心，精神的族类便难以为继。精神的族类便会绝种。”帕斯捷尔纳克其书、其人都是这样的“良心的立体块”。他以其独特的心灵气质、才情知识和文学创作，实践着他的以民族良心和民族精神为追求的人生与文学创作的箴言。
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1890年1月29日是帕斯捷尔纳克诞生的日子。这一天恰恰是俄罗斯伟大诗人普希金53周年的忌日。有人说，这一巧合说明了普希金诗歌精神的不灭，预示着二十世纪文学星空又有一颗进射出耀眼光芒的巨星要出现。帕斯捷尔纳克跌宕起伏、色彩浓厚的一生，他的天才的诗篇，与社会情绪共振的小说证明，这的确不是妄说。
帕斯捷尔纳克天生一副奇绝的艺术灵性，这灵性首先来自于他的双亲。帕斯捷尔纳克的父亲是俄国皇家科学院的院士，莫斯科绘画、雕塑、建筑学校的教授，俄国最早的印象主义画家之一，托尔斯泰的长篇小说《复活》经典插图的作者。他的母亲是个9岁开始登台演奏钢琴的女神童音乐家。 17岁上，她在音乐之都维也纳的独奏表演赢得了堪与李斯特和鲁宾斯坦媲美的声誉。帕斯捷尔纳克少时有过多年对绘画的痴迷，受过六年的音乐熏陶。“未来的职业画家”，“一个骨子里的音乐家”——俄国艺术家们对他的评价证实了他杰出的艺术天赋。
1908年，帕斯捷尔纳克以获金质奖章的优异成绩中学毕业。对艺术表现人情感的愉悦惬意引发了他对哲学思考艺术本质的兴趣。1910年，他在考进莫斯科大学法律系的一年后，转到历史语文系的哲学专业学习，直至1913年毕业。繁荣于世纪初的俄国宗教哲学，康德，黑格尔与柏格森的哲学思想都激起过他的思想波澜。1912年，帕斯捷尔纳克怀着对新康德主义哲学的崇敬来到德国大学城马尔堡学习。康德唯美的艺术思想奠定了未来诗人的艺术创作原则——诗歌不是“抚慰，口号，刺刀，鞭子”，而是“两只夜莺的争相啼鸣”。
帕斯捷尔纳克从对艺术本质的领悟开始了他对新艺术形式——诗歌的尝试。1913年，他参加俄国未来派诗歌创作小组。帕斯捷尔纳克走向未来主义，不是前卫时尚的使然，更不是模仿心理的驱使，而是他寻求表现情感与个性新形式的必然。从1914年发表第一部诗集《雾霭中的双子星座》起，他便开始在诗歌创作的过程中寻找着人类情感的自由、快乐与幸福。他是那样怅惘地慨叹宇宙万物的难以捉摸，那样动情地歌颂大自然的完美和谐，歌颂天上与人间的一致。他写着一篇又一篇的诗，同时又通过诗歌将自己推进到一个又一个了悟人生的境界。暗喻、寓意、省略——这些被诗人视为远比直叙更重要的：陌生化”手法在他的早期诗歌中已经得到了充分的运用。他的早期诗中常常表达的是一种只可意会，只可感觉，无法明言，无法表述的情感。但是他也有明然判断的作品，那是他表达对生活的信念，对美的欢悦，对美被破坏的怜惜。
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编辑推荐
这是一本了解知识分子命运史的好书。通过这本书我们可以看到一个时代中的一批典型的知识分子的单性的内心生活。本书多次被改编成电影。这样的书你一定不能错过。
目录
PART ONE
1 The Five-o'clock Express
2 A Girl from a Different World
3 The Sventitskys' Ghristmas Party
4 The Hour of the Inevitable
PART TWO
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书摘
Galiullin had met Antipov in 1905, when Pasha Antipov spent six months with the Tiverzins and Yusupka went to play with him on Sundays. There too he had once or twice met Lara. He had heard nothing of either of them since. When Antipov came
from Yuriatin and joined the regiment, Galiullin was struck by the change in his old friend. The shy, mischievous, and girlish child had turned into an arrogant, know-it-all misanthrope. He was intelligent, very brave, taciturn, and sarcastic. Sometimes,looking at him, Galiullin could have sworn that he saw in his
gloomy eyes, as inside a window, something beyond, an idea that had taken firm hold of him: a longing for his daughter or for the face of his wife. Antipov seemed like one bewitched, as in a fairy tale. And now Antipov was gone, and Galiullin was left with his papers, his photographs, and the unsolved secret of his transformation on his hancls.
These days I have such a longing to live honestly, to be Productive. I so much want to be a part of all this awakening.And then, in the middle of all this general rejoicing, I catch mysterious, sad glance, wandering God knows where, far
away. How I wish it were not there! How I wish your face to say that you are happy with your fate and that you need nothing from anyone. If only someone who is really close to you, your friend or your husband--best of all if he were a soldier--would take me by the hand and tell me to stop worrying about your fate and not to weary you with my attentions. But I'd wrest my hand free and take a swing .... Ah, I have forgotten myself. Please forgive me."
"But after all, it is not for the sake of gardening that we are going all this enormous distance. No, we had better face things honestly, our object is quite different. We are going to try subsist in the modem fashion, taking our share in the squander ing of old Krueger's properties, his factories and machines. We are not going to rebuild his fortune, but
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