[identity profile] victoriavandal.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] revolution_fr
Hi all - salut et fraternite! I've only just joined livejournal and this is my first posting here, so apologies if I mess this up (what's an ljcut?) - anyway, my question: I've always thought the character Pasha/Strelnikov in Pasternak's 'Dr. Zhivago' owed more to Robespierre and co. than to Lenin or Trotsky, and not just cos of the little round glasses, so I googled it and it turns out that Pasternak wrote some fragmentary verse plays about Robespierre and Saint-Just in 1917, published in a magazine in 1918 - apparently, as with Stani, they were inspired by Buchner - and they partly formed the basis for the themes in 'Zhivago'. That's all I know - is there anyone out there who can tell me any more?

Date: 2008-04-15 10:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] livviebway.livejournal.com
Haha. Pretty hair does so much for you, doesn't it?

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