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"First Experience: Pasternak's Short and Novella Collection (Baidu Library)" includes 13 novels by Pasternak, including "First Experience", "A Story in One Large Character", "Second Portrait: Petersburg", "Loveless", "The Childhood of Liewers", "Novelette", and "Notes of Patrick", which is all the prose novels of the author except "Doctor Zhivago". These works express the writer's unique understanding and psychological experience of the external world in his youth from multiple angles, and reflect deeply on the relationship between art and life. They convey his contemplation on the ups and downs of the times in a unique poetic way. They pay great attention to the personalities involved in the historical torrent, especially the experiences of contemporary women. They clearly show the clear intention of writing about the fate of a generation of intellectuals and "returning a generation to history."

The core of "Doctor Zhivago" is a history of the fate of intellectuals. The protagonist of the novel, Yuli Zhivago, experienced a series of complex and turbulent stages in the history of Russia and the Soviet Union in his short life of less than forty years. In the novel, the writer relies on an era of rapid changes and casts his thoughts on many issues into his fate. The novel is the reflection of the poet's sensitive soul on the living conditions of people in the changing era under new historical conditions.