Talk:Doctor Zhivago

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Contents 1 Disambiguation? 2 Entry contradicts entry for author re date of publication in Russia 3 Originally published in Italian, then English and French, finally Russian 4 Rachmaninoff

[edit] Disambiguation?

Why does a search for "Doctor Zhivago" take you straight to the movie, rather than to a disambiguation page with links to the novel and the movie? In my opinion, were it to go directly to either article it should be the novel, as this predates the film. -- Saluton 15th April 2006

This has been attended to. :: Kevinalewis : ^{(Talk Page)}/_(Desk) 11:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Entry contradicts entry for author re date of publication in Russia

They are different by a year, anyone know the answer? Fitzhugh 05:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC) hate is good

[edit] Originally published in Italian, then English and French, finally Russian

I believe that it was written in Russian and the Soviets rejected it, so it was smuggled to the west and published first in Italian. Cottonmather0 07:56, 04 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rachmaninoff

I see that Pasternak was a friend of Sergei Rachmaninoff. I've never read the book, but in the 1965 movie there's a small scene where a pianist is playing Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor. One member of the audience turns to the person sitting next to them and says something like "It's genius", to which his interlocutor replies "It's not genius, it's Rachmaninoff". Or something like that. The person at the piano didn't look much like Rachmaninoff (although the camera was on him for only a few seconds) - and so I wonder whether it was supposed to be the composer at the keyboard, or some other pianist playing Rachmaninoff's music. -- JackofOz (talk) 00:18, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

"Boris! This is genius!

"Really? I thought it was Rachmaninoff. I'm going for a smoke." 68Kustom (talk) 22:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)