The Tragic Life-Affirming, Love-Hope Of "Doctor Zhivago"...

...THIS is WHY, I believe, the novel won the Nobel prize for literature and why the book and movie have such appeal to millions and millions and millions of people >>> FEW people EVER, EVER know the intense, soul-connection, the extremely passionate life-giving and life-crushing love, actually indescribable love, that Yuri had for Lara, and she for him, very rare, ~ the Romeo & Juliet thing, and fed, made even stronger by deep longing, and adversity, for Lara & Yuri, the fear of the Russian Revolution... (Most people have a more comfortable kind of romantic love.) Very likely, for his mental health too, Boris Pasternak's couldn't HELP writing "Doctor Zhivago," because, he too, had this very rare type of love with Olga Ivinskaya, during the last thirteen years of his life. ...Lara and Yuri were separated for three years after Komarovsky took her forcibly away, when she was pregnant by Yuri, and then, later after the child was born, Lara was sent to a gulag, a Soviet concentration camp. At last, on the day he died, Yuri suffered a massive and fatal heart attack as he saw Lara walking along the street. He tried desperately, to reach her, then, died. She never knew he was even there, as she continued to walk along... Later, Lara is again, very sadly, put into another gulag, where she finally died. But, Lara & Yuri's daughter survived.