An Evening of Doctor Zhivago

An Evening of Doctor Zhivago with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky They walked and walked and sang “Memory Eternal,” and when they stopped, it seemed that the singing was carried on by their feet, the horses, the gusts of wind. When the first English translation of Doctor Zhivago was published in 1958, Boris Pasternak said “Do not blame [the translators] too much. It’s not their fault. They are used, like translators everywhere, to reproducing, the literal sense rather than the tone of what is said—and of course it is the tone that matters.” Now, after award-winning translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Gogol, the team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer the first English version of Zhivago in more than fifty years, returning