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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
An art critic in defining recently the special quality of an artist built up on Aristotle when he said, “The difference between an animal and a plant is that the animal throws off its young while the plant simply grows new buds upon the same stalk. The artist is an animal, not a plant.” One of the central themes of Pasternak's novel, Doctor Zhivago, is the peculiar need of the artist to eject the product of his creation. The act is life-giving, intimate, and personal, yet at the same time free and objective.
1 “Legend and Symbol in Dr. Zhivago,” The Nation, 25 April 1959, 364–373.
2 Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (Univ. of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, 1959). The Russian text. All translations of the poems are my own.
3 Doctor Zhivago (Pantheon: New York, 1958), p. 10.
4 Nicola Chiaromonte, “Pasternak's Novel,” The Partisan Review, xxv (Winter, 1958), 130.
5 Paul Eluard, Choix de Poèmes (Gallimard, Paris, 1941), p. 98.
6 Claude Vigée, “Contemporary French Poetry,” The Partisan Review, xxv (Winter, 1958), 64.
7 Luke ix. 44.