© Gunnar Tómasson

20 December 2017

Background

(Wikipedia)

I.

The plot of Doctor Zhivago is long and intricate. It can be difficult to follow for two main reasons: first, Pasternak employs many characters, who interact with each other throughout the book in unpredictable ways, and second, he frequently introduces a character by one of his/her three names, then subsequently refers to that character by another of the three names or a nickname, without expressly stating that he is referring to the same character. To avoid this confusion, the summary below uses a character’s full name when the character is first introduced.

Only Part I of 15 plus Epilogue

I. An autobiographical novel

Doctor Zhivago

7640

7633 = Boris Pasternak

      7 = Hebrew Man of Seventh Day

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Background

(Wikipedia)

II.

Imperial Russia, 1903. The novel opens during a Russian Orthodox funeral liturgy, or panikhida, for Yuri’s mother, Marya Nikolaevna Zhivago. Having long ago been abandoned by his father, Yuri is taken in by his maternal uncle, Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin, a philosopher and former Orthodox priest who now works for the publisher of a progressive newspaper in a provincial capital on the Volga River. Yuri’s father, Andrei Zhivago, was once a wealthy member of Moscow’s merchant gentry, but has squandered the family’s fortune in Siberia through debauchery and carousing.

II. Man as Saga World Tree

Askr Yggdrasils

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7633 = Boris Pasternak

6522 = Yuri Zhivago

14155

1 = Monad

7154 = Askr Yggdrasils

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God’s Image

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Maternal Uncle

Philosopher and former Priest

19108

12586 = Nikolai Nikolaevich Vedenyapin

  6522 = Yuri Zhivago

19108

Murder of Snorri Sturluson

Advent of Pope Don Quixote

19108

4823 = Árni beiskr – Killer of Snorri Sturluson

5753 = Hrímþurs – Rime Giant

4884 = Reykjaholt

2307 = 23 September

1241 = 1241 A.D.

 100 = The End

19108

1 = Monad

1000 = FIRE

11850 = Höskuldr Hvítanessgoði – Saga Christ

-11359 = Snorri Sturluson

17616 = EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DON QVIXOTE DE LA MANCHA (Original Title)

19108 

Background

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III.

That summer, Yuri (who is 11 years old) and Nikolai Nikolaevich travel to Duplyanka, the estate of Lavrenty Mikhailovich Kologrivov, a wealthy silk merchant. They are there not to visit Kologrivov, who is abroad with his wife, but to visit a mutual friend, Ivan Ivanovich Voskoboinikov, an intellectual who lives in the steward’s cottage. Kologrivov’s daughters, Nadya (who is 15 years old) and Lipa (who is younger), are also living at the estate with a governess and servants. Innokenty (Nika) Dudorov, a 13-year-old boy who is the son of a convicted terrorist has been placed with Ivan Ivanovich by his mother and lives with him in the cottage. As Nikolai Nikolaevich and Ivan Ivanovich are strolling in the garden and discussing philosophy, they notice that a train passing in the distance has come to a stop in an unexpected place, indicating that something is wrong. On the train, an 11-year-old boy named Misha Grigorievich Gordon is traveling with his father. They have been on the train for three days. During that time, a kind man had given Misha small gifts and had talked for hours with his father, Grigory Osipovich Gordon. However, encouraged by his attorney, who was traveling with him, the man had become drunk. Eventually, the man had rushed to the vestibule of the moving train car, pushed aside the boy’s father, opened the door and thrown himself out, killing himself. Misha’s father had then pulled the emergency brake, bringing the train to a halt. The passengers disembark and view the corpse while the police are called. The deceased’s lawyer stands near the body and blames the suicide on alcoholism.

III. Intellectual – Garden Stroll – Train Passengers

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Intellectual

14758 = Ivan Ivanovich Voskoboinikov

Garden Stroll

8212 = Nikolai Nikolaevich

6891 = Ivan Ivanovich

Father-Son on Train

12585 = Grigory Osipovich Gordon

11801 = Misha Grigorievich Gordon

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Train Jorney

345 = Soul’s Foundation

666 = Man-Beast

216 = Soul’s Resurrection

432 = Right Measure of Man

Around Zodiac

45319 = Twelve Houses¹

Suicide on Train

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

FIRE from Above

 1000 = FIRE

Boris Pasternak Acquires

Cosmic Consciousnes

7633 = Boris Pasternak

5596 = Andlig spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

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Background

(Wikipedia)

Epilogue

During World War II, Zhivago’s old friends Nika Dudorov and Misha Gordon meet up. One of their discussions revolves around a local laundress named Tanya, a bezprizornaya, or war orphan, and her resemblance to both Yuri and Lara. Tanya tells both men of the difficult childhood she has had due to her mother abandoning her in order to marry Komarovsky. Much later, the two men meet over the first edition of Yuri Zhivago’s poems.

A

Askr Yggdrasils

7154

1000 = Light Eternal

2620 = Yuri

1471 = Lara

2063 = Tanya

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B

Much Later

Yuri Zhivago‘s Poems

6522 = Yuri Zhivago

6005 = Nika Dudorov

5572 = Misha Gordon

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C

Boris Pasternak

Vale

7000 = Microcosmos – Man in God‘s Image

Last Judgement

11099 = Il Giudizio Universale – Michelangelo

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¹Twelve Houses of the Zodiac

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4956 = Aquarius

3577 = Pisces

2443 = Aries

4611 = Taurus

2514 = Gemini

2589 = Cancer

1392 = Leo

3180 = Virgo

1939 = Libra

4594 = Scorpio

6729 = Sagittarius

6795 = Capricornus

45319