According to Edmund Wilson, Doctor Zhivago is an elegiac poem rather than a novel. His knowledge of the original Russian text makes his judgment particularly persuasive. In translation, too, the rhythm of Pasternak's story is the rhythm of poetry: events do not take place in the dimension of ordinary time, which is proper to the novel, but are suspended somewhere outside time ...
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