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THE CHINA MAH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1958.

Doctor

Zhivago

BY BORIS PASTERNAK

Today the China Mail brings you the heart and essence of the book sensation of the moment- it is the story that gives new depth to the greatest upheaval of the century

TIME: 1917

IT 19 1917, the Year of

the Revolutions: a curtain raiser in February, the real thing in November. History ia being made; but Pasternak's characters take no direct part. They are onlookers. At first, enthusi- natic Like Yury Zhivago, the young

doctor who is the hero of the novel. He says to Lara, who is A

in

military

nurse

hospital-

"Just to think of it, the whole

TOP CRITICS in Europe and America are hailing one of the major fiction masterpieces of our century-a book that took them somewhat by surprise. Because it has come, not heralded but smuggled, from Russia. This unexpected.sensation is called "Dr Zhivago," arid the China Mail has secured it because it is a story that deserves the widest possible public. "Dr Zhivago" tells of what happens when ordinary people are caught in the type of upheaval which changes the course of history-in this case the Russian Revolution. The people it is all about the citizens of Russia-cannot read it because. the book is prohibited for home consumption. Because of its incredible grasp of human and inhuman reactions as a nation's leadership is overthrown, the China Mail now presents this special extract version of "Dr Zhivago

to.

all your life you Had been led by the hand like a small child and suddenly you wore on your own, you had to learn to walk by yourself. There was no one

nelther family people whose judgment respected,"

around,

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[ "Doctor Zhivago” is his, Hrse... novel. Hitherto ho was known · Infitumia; an. apost and 'a top Shakespearian translator. His parents were Moscow "Intellectuals"; he himself studied philosophy in Germany after leaving* Moscow University. In the First World War he worked in a factorytitu the Urals the setting: tale : part cof Dootor Zhivago”—and' after the Ho volution became 'a"librarian' in Mons: COW.

mon. Iri climate; you didn't know what The nurse got the Impression The men had growva unused to against the garrison soldiers prise, ofter enterprise became young

a peasants, coat who are backing the Bolsheviks. Bolshevised. As that the two lightly wounded Auch a tone. to, think, who to sten

walked back "Listen to him laying it on They're skirmishing all over the

Most people's meals coaalsted with her, pull- men who were walking beside

Just like in the old place, you can't-cowit the focal

und teh soup; ing ·

sledge the stretcher had been so moved comradest

that they were days! We haven't by his cries

done with points of insurrection. I got of boiled millet about to pull out the Leon, these officers tricks yet." Ther into trouble coming here bace made of horring beads, followed which looted us. splinter with their bare hands turned to the Cossacks: "You've at the corner of Big Dmitrovim by the rest of the herring as a light as a toy, followed, come to restore order, get "You mustn't do that. The

and once at the Nikeitsky Gate, second course, there was ale and with it, the us up, make an end Now you can't get through, at gruel made by boiling whost or her cautiously

all, you have to go rand. Come . This was to be the staple into the yard. of us,""

But the Cossacks liked Gintz's ca, Yury, put your cat on and food of the majority for a long

come out. You've got to see it. time to come. unfortunate speech less and less. "We're all swing to him," they This is history. This happens One morning, after Yury had the sledge, was a load of birch muttered. "Fancies himself as once in a lifetime."

gone to work, Tonya put on her logs no thietter than the bahus the lord and master." One by

shabby winter coat she was ters of an old-fashioned country one they sheathed their swords,

50 run down that she shivered house in a nineteenth-century said nothing about Ta One after ahether they got off

in it even in, warm weather photograph. Tonya ithew their their horse. When most of

and went out hunting worth; birch only in name. The purchase. It would have been them had dismounted, they

cupboard, but they could 4 Kogér and too freshly cut to be sult have brought themselves y to, do moved in a straggly crowd to BUT history is around There were only two logs left; wood was of; the poorest sort more maible to chop up the wards. the centre of the clearing,

able for burning. Butyus there t was: no choice it wasipointless to argue

of Russia has had its root torn FIRST TREMOR

G. and you and I and everyone

else are out in the opent We

af free--not just tree in theory,

In words It's rent freedom.

-WAR WITH

dropped out of the sky, freedom GERMANY

beyond our expectations. Free dom by accident through à mis- understanding.

"Mother Russia is

the

you surgeon will do it--he has speelal instruments-if it has to be done." (O God, O God, takes him away; don't let me doubt that You exist.)

Next moment, as he was ear- the stops, the man ried up screamed, his whole body shud- dered, and, he led

of

FADING DAYS: THE CZAR

THE background to their reactions was uno

on move, she can't stand still, she's restless and she can't find rest,. violence. There had been

she's talking and she can't stop, the war with Germany.Join

"It was partly the war, the It brought Zhivago, and revolution did the rest. The Lara together?

war made an artificial break in life as if life could be put a

had

. The orderlies were carrying a

-No

mixed with the

·

main

present for his wife, Hinting" at

a future deal in potpices, he enked the price or the piano..

When Yury, came home, "ke

MONDAY:

IF IT

WERE YOU....

them:- men and

Only within their own small fraternised.

She wandered about this You must got away," the, neighbourhood did people come worried Cossaak oneer, told out in the corning and walk a alleys in the neighbourhood Cinitz You must vanish short distance to buy bread or where you could stic had been the quietly, don't let them see you to stand in a crowd round some catch a peacant from ene THERE

go. Your car is at the level Jucky stranger with a bottle of vilinges outside Moscow selline, The woung man carried five assassination of the Czar, crossing, we'll send for it to milk, asking him where he had vegetables and potatoes In the oralarmibod up to the

got it.

streets, peasants with living-room, and took in though Pasternak does not meet you. Hurry."

loads were able to be arrested, change, Tonya's small cupboard

He" "DUCTOR ZIVAGO” ja publikad with -looking-gloss / dooES. Gintz went, but he felt that mention this. Bút Zhivago

Now and then the aring

Soon sho, found what she carried it slown and packed it in by Colher and Harvil resea recalls how he once saw to steal away was beneath his started up again all over the

Translation by MANU MAYWErd ́and dignity, so ho turned quito the Czar at the front

openly towards the station.. Ho town. It was believed that the was looking for. An enormous hie aledge to take away as a MIDY HATEFL was terribly agitated, but his two eldes were negotiating and increased according to whether pride forced him to a calm, that the gun fire died down or unhurried step.

the

Like negotiations looked succeeding or falling.

ho

you

for a time. What nonsense that man who had been mutated ial The revolution bruke out in a particularly monstrous way. willy-lily, like a breath that's A splinter from the shell which been held too long. Everyone had mangled his face, turning was revived, reborn, changed, his tongue and lips into a red

At that time the Emperor transformed."

gruch without killing him, had was making a tour of inspection Icarned lodged in the bone structure of in Galicia and.It was

He was close to the station his jaw, replacing the tom-out suddenly that he was coming to

the unit of which he On the edge of the woods, cheek. He uttered short groans Inspect OR may be bewildered, in a thin, Inhuman voice.

was the honorary colonel. He within sight of the railway lines, ho looked round for the first at any moment. like Lára:-

one could take these sounds for might arrive

One evening in Into October anything but an appeal to finish A guard of honour was.drawn ime. Soldiers with rifles had

station platform, followed him. "What do wondered. "Everything

He (according to the old 'calendar) changed him off quickly, to put an end up on the

After a couple of hours of want?" suddenly the tone, the- moral to his inconceivablo torment.

suspenso, two trains of the quickened his pace. His heart Yury went, without any particu

mady alar, necessity, to call on one of imperial sulte went by quickly pounding wildly, he one alter the other and soon supreme effort to control his his colleagues The* street was afterwards

"I must almost empty;: be.met hardly the Czar'a train fear. He told himself:

any one on his way. He walkoj shout to thern,” drew in

At the very doors of the quickly. The first thin powdery WOS coming down, Accompanied by the Grand station, under the station bell, OT! Duke Nicolas, the Czar in- there stood a water-butt, for use catered by a rising wind... A newsboy running with a spected the grenadiers. Every in case of fre... It was covered

of freshly printed word of his quiet greeting set with a lid.. Gintz: jumped up thick batch

papers wkler his arm, and Jf bursts and splashes of loud, on it and began to speak,** echoing hurrahs, their sound But he stopped on the edge shouting, "All the latest over- spurting like water from a of the lid, overturned. It and took him at one of the

roads, swinging bucket

fall in, one leg in the water, the

"Keep other sticking up out of the Yury. The boy peeled a damp the change," said sheet off the batch, thrust it

A British Crossword Puzzle

27

ACROSS

3. Garden poo17) (8).

8. Horse food (4),

1) Anguish (8).......

3. 14

15

b

17

16

18

121

11 Ancient tubdwellor (0),

13 Remula to give support (4):

20. Wino (8)..

30 They provide employment

for munition workers (8).

The voice of Dalton (4).

41 Ranking fre (8), 1; 20

20 Make things warm up again

(8).

25'Prejudice in the woods (4), 27 Many in Canaan may come

from Winnipeg, for example

·

26

DOWN

butt.

..

Cross

At the sight of him, sitting into his hand and vanished in The Czar, smiling and ill at slumsily astride. the, butt, the the snowstorm. case, laked older and

more mon burst into laughter and the Yury stopped under a streef tired than his image on his ono in front shot Gintz in the light to read the headlines. The coins and medals. His face was neck. He was dead by the time: paper was a late extra, printed listions and a littlo Babby. He the others ran up and thrust on one side only; it gave the kept glancing apologetically at their bayonets into his body,

the Grand Duke, not knowing

wilat was, expected of hira at

the

Duke, bending down AND Tonya,

any given moment, and

Grand

24

1. Tlo one letter on another

(4),

2 Contidental name. (43)

Former England cricketor

· (4)7)

G Bowlers; perhapa (4).

More than a letter le plain|

to see (0)...

7. Like Eve? (5).

Ideal girl, (B).

10 Waxy creaturent (5),

12 Just perfect (0),

14 Became lil. (8)

30 Trade-mark (8).

17 Rpooky (D). A

19. Poot's continent (1),

20 symbol to know- (8), 21 Ble turns up to have dinner

22 Leaf irisoot? Could be (4). 23 Though sour, with a drop

It's sweet. (4). 24 Formerly from rest (4)

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A

official announcement from Petersburg that Soviet of People's Commissars had been formed and that Soviet power and the Dictatorship of the Proletarint were established in

respectfully, showed him the phrase, bits off the change aussin. There followed the way out of his difficulty not so

much by words as by moving in attitudes:

first decrees of the OW "By the way, we don't Government and various briet Watching him on that warm say rooms any more; it's news Items received by "tele

an eyebrow or a shoulder.

gray mountain morning Yury called living space toya-, graph and delephone:. felt sorry for the Czar and days.

horrifled to think that this AND, OUTSIDE

diffident reserve and chyness

Were the essential attributes of

LIVING SPACE OF THE printed page with wor

PEOPLE:--'

the oppressor, tirat.sucli weak- noes could klii or, pardon, bind The hotel, looked like a not or 'loose...

TREMOR INTO CRACKS: FIRST REVOLUTION

WHEN the first revolution came, the Provisional Government sent cominis

out to....... the country:/

Jare

One, Commissar Gotz went, with the Cossacks to with armed

reasons, desertors!

that

it The blizzard slashed THE

Yury's eyes arid: covered the rustling, mowy gruel, but it was

the. szipwstorm lunatic asylum loft in the prevented Yury from reading. was shaken and Over- charge of the patients He emplu.. chaotic, and whelmed by the greatness of the moment and the thought-of abandoned to chance.

its signiféence for centuries to como.

CRACKS INTO EXPLOSION- NOTHING COULD BE THE SAME AGAIN

And

Everywhere there were tow elections: for the running of housing, trade, industry, municipal services. Commissars were being appointed to each, men in black leather Jerkins, with emilimited powers and an fron will, ariced wth means of -Intimidation, and: revolvers, who

abavo little and slept·les. -

They knew the sinking Lourgcols" - broed, the average bolders et cheap Goverment stocks, and they spoke to them willout the 'allghfest, pity and with Maibielophellars audios,

THEN, the “real”” revolu= He reminded the deserters in Tury's unclo burnts in that war-revolutionary tribunals on him with the news. Hat lind been set up and called on it is the little things of life them, on pain, of death, to dis that still seem to be im to petty thieves. caught in this arm and give up their leaders, portanti

Tď, thoj“ refused, he said,, Liby

There were the people ** who | would prove that they were vila Tharfrei fable" phi the reorganized everything in trallory, a pollileully uncon“, street. The Cadets are unting accordance with the plan, and

olourwollen-headed rabble, for the Provisional: Government, company after company, enter«.

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