tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post6611946312647531717..comments2024-03-27T05:13:25.241-05:00Comments on The New Dork Review of Books: Doctor Zhivago and The Secrets We Kept: A Spy Story about a "Love" StoryGreg Zimmermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08122230426442946518noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060047013304842896.post-55260339253063291772020-03-06T08:28:50.718-06:002020-03-06T08:28:50.718-06:00I read and absolutely loved Zhivago in grad school...I read and absolutely loved <i>Zhivago</i> in grad school, where I studied it with a professor who was a Pasternak specialist. His guidance made the reading very intellectually rewarding. Even with that background, though, when I reread the book about twenty years later, finally all in Russian, I found some tremendously beautiful and wondrous passages but, when reading without any academic goals, the flaws that you mention really (really!) stuck out. (I blogged about rereading <i>Zhivago</i> <a href="http://lizoksbooks.blogspot.com/2008/04/back-to-classics-doctor-zhivago.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.) Lisa C. Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10139281544357167953noreply@blogger.com