Word info

Zhivago

Proper noun

Meaning

A male given name

A surname

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your "Life and Fate” would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago. Vasily Grossman

I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are. Melissa Rosenberg

By the end of the Fair, 355 copies of Doctor Zhivago had been surreptitiously handed out, and eventually thousands more were distributed throughout the Communist bloc. Source: Internet

Although it contains passages written in the 1910s and 1920s, Doctor Zhivago was not completed until 1956. Source: Internet

Both were accused of being Pasternak's link with Western publishers and of dealing in hard currency for Doctor Zhivago. Source: Internet

Ivinskaya (1978), p 230. In a letter written to his sister Josephine, however, Pasternak recalled the words of his friend Ekaterina Krashennikova upon reading Doctor Zhivago. Source: Internet

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