Boris Pasternak. "Doctor Zhivago". A story about time and about yourself. Summary of "Doctor Zhivago" may look as follows.
After the uncle, who took care of him after the death of his parents, moved to Petersburg, Yura Zhivago lives in a family of other relatives - Gromeko. In the person of Tony Gromeko and Misha Gordon, he makes good friends. Once, when Amalia Gishar, a friend of the Gromeko family, wanted to end her life, Yura first saw her daughter Lara. Then he caught the secret of Lara’s relationship with Komarovsky, who was much older than her, and who also had his own relationship with Lara’s mother.
A few years later, already a medical student, Jura, together with Tonya, celebrated Christmas at the Svetnitsky. It was already clear that Yura and Tonya should be together not only as friends, but also as spouses. The seriously ill Anna Ivanovna, the mother of Tony, predicted a happy fate for them. Lara also comes to Svetnitsky (after a meeting with Pasha in love with her). At the evening, Lara wasn’t having fun - she shoots Komarovsky, who was also in the hall, and, having missed, gets into one of the guests. So the second meeting of Yura with Lara took place. At the same time, Anna Ivanovna dies. Komarovsky managed to save Lara from the court. She married Pasha, and the young family went to live in the Urals. Yura and Tonya also played a wedding. With the outbreak of war, both Yuri and Pavel get to the front. Soon, rumors reached Larisa that her Pasha was dead. Yura and his wife move to the Urals, to Yuryatin, where he begins to secretly meet with Larisa. Soon, having learned from Larisa’s confession that her husband did not die and lives under a different name, Yura decides to leave both his wife and Larisa, because he can no longer lie to his wife about love for her, and his conscience does not allow him to be with Larisa. But here Yuri is forcibly taken to the detachment of Mikulitsyn.
Only two years later he will be able to escape from the squad. In Yuryatin, Zhivago does not find any of his relatives. Tired of the road, he falls asleep in a dead sleep. The next morning, he wakes up in Larisa’s apartment, well-groomed and clean. After a while, a letter arrives from Tony saying that she is in Moscow. Soon, at the insistence of Yuri, Larisa leaves with Komarovsky, and he begins to slowly
go crazy. He writes poetry and philosophizes. With the beginning of the NEP, Yuri arrives in Moscow. He is not the same as he was before. Gradually losing his ability to heal and write, after some time he dies.
Afterword
This, written without some important details, is a summary. (“Doctor Zhivago”, of course, is not designed for such an acquaintance). Its purpose is to interest potential readers. Alone after reading Doctor Zhivago. Summary, ”they will be interested in the full text and, just starting to read, they will see that there are a lot of details in this novel. The very essence of the novel depends on them. Other young people will find it sufficient to read only a brief summary. Doctor Zhivago is a magnificent, powerful novel. And without taking into account the most important nuances on which the whole intrigue of the work rests, it is impossible to evaluate this work, which brought the author a Nobel Prize. If you want to fully understand and feel it, it is better to immediately start reading the novel, having completed the summary. "Doctor Zhivago" is worth it!