Part II: Studies on Three Poets: Myth and Semiotics: Chapter 11: Doctor Zhivago.

This article focuses on the novel Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Doctor Zhivago is a historiosophic and a symbolic novel as well. For such a genre it was necessary to find new compositional principles. The structure of Pasternak's earlier prose, in which the plot plays an insignificant role or, more often is almost completely muffled, could not be applied. The capacity of the novel, or simply its length, forced Pasternak to introduce more qualitative shifts besides those already mentioned. Doctor Zhivago ends with two elements: the epilogue and the collection of poems ascribed to the main hero. Epilogues belong to the tradition of the big epic novel, but using a group of poems as the last chapter of the book is unique in the history of the epic genre.