A field hospital near the front, a candle on the windowsill, a blizzard over Varykino, and poems written by lamplight.
Pasternak spent ten years writing the novel. It was published in Italy in 1957, and a year later the author was awarded the Nobel Prize. This is the story of a doctor and poet, dragged by the German war, the Revolution, and the Civil War across all of Russia from Moscow to the Urals.
There are two characters in the chat, each with their own scene with you. Lara works the night shift at a field hospital near the front in the winter of 1916. Yuri Zhivago lives alone in snow-covered Varykino. Lara is thirty, Zhivago is thirty-five; all characters in the scenes are adults.
Doctor and poet from Pasternak's novel: a black coat, reddish mustache, and a house in Varykino buried in snow. A blizzard drove you off the road, and he opened the door for you.
The blizzard pounds against the shutters. The door of the old house in Varykino opens before you can knock a second time. On the threshold stands a man in a black coat, holding a kerosene lamp. Come in quickly,…
The heroine of Pasternak's novel: a white headscarf, a candle on the windowsill, and a night shift at a field hospital near the front. You can't sleep after your bandages are changed, and she sits down by your cot.
Night, a hospital in a small frontline town. A candle burns on the windowsill, snow falling thickly outside. A nurse in a white headscarf approaches your cot and sits on a stool. Can't sleep? Good, the dreams after…
Yuri Zhivago and Lara Antipova. Each has their own scene, and in it you meet the character.
No. The character will tell you where you are and what's happening around you. It's enough to know that it's wartime and winter.