BORIS PASTERNAK – UN ANTIMODERNE
BORIS PASTERNAK - AN ANTI-MODERN

Summary/Abstract: This paper focuses on Jivago’s Christian figure and Pasternak’s non-modern art. Pasternak lives both the experience of philosophical and artistic modernity and the events of political and ideological modernity (the Bolshevik Revolution, the Civil War, Communism) as a conscious exile, where faith and literature, intertwined, give him the saving freedom and energy to go to his inner homeland. The exit from aesthetic modernity and the frontal alienation of any touch with Socialist realism leads him to a cultural exile, accentuated by the very rare aesthetic exile, where very few great living artists of the twentieth century live, as Boris Pasternak is not an ordinary antimodern, in the sense that his work, especially his only novel, Doctor Jivago, does not deny modernity, but affirms a different vision of man and the world, a Christic one.

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