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This novel’s title character declares that “Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.” A soldier in this novel shoots a man “from laughter, stupidly. For no reason” before murdering his family. Hamlet pleads to “just once” be relieved from his role in one of (20[1])the 25 poems (20[1])from the notebook (20[1])of this novel’s (20[2])title (20[3])character. (20[2])This (20[1])novel (20[1])was attacked as an “artistically squalid, malicious work” in (*) Pravda a few (10[1])days before its author declined a Nobel (10[1])Prize. (10[7])The soldiers of Liberius in the Forest (10[1])Brotherhood (10[1])conscript this novel’s (10[2])title character to fight the Whites (10[1])in Siberia, forcing him to leave his lover Lara. For 10 points, name (10[1])this novel (10[1])set during the Russian Revolution by Boris Pasternak. (10[2])■END■ (10[4])

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