Doctor Zhivago

The article analyses the tragic dialectics of the lives of children from Tiverzin’s yard, who devoted themselves to the revolution and became its victims, as well as those against whom the revolution was conceived. The significance of the locus “Tiverzin’s yard”, which occupies a significant place in the composition due to the way of life of the railway workers living there, who shaped the characters of the future participants of the revolution, is analyzed.

In the article the time structure of the novel Doctor Zhivago is examined in the context of Pasternak’s idea of imaginative reality. Time in the novel is presented as a row of interlacing mutually defining layers: the author’s time, the time of lyrical affection, the time of the characters, the reader’s time, breakthroughs to the Eternity create a complex unity of the narrative structure.

The article substantiates the conclusion that the basis of the psychological portraits of many characters, as well as of the composition of the novel Doctor Zhivago, contains parallelism and isomorphism; and their compositional unity allows the author to reveal the family and spiritual affinity of the characters, as well as to express his position.

The article substantiates the conclusion that the correspondence of the characters in Pasternak’s novel is a plot-motivated complex multilayered system of written communication based on the family idea, expanded by a system of inter-textual links.