小說《齊瓦哥醫生》的作者巴斯特納克是一位優秀的詩人，素以詩聞名文壇，也出版了多本詩集，而作者本人卻渴望成就一本小說，且是一本自傳意味濃厚的小說，這不尋常之舉，令許多人感到驚訝，許多人也覺得其小說技巧仍不夠純熟，作者不是寫小說的高手。本論文企圖解釋巴斯特納克堅持寫小說的用意，是其秉持史詩般的關懷來呈現革命動蕩的大時代，詩的靜態與詩意風景如永恆不變的時代元素，人的話語則如短暫的時代元素，彼此的交織是巴斯特納克呈現個人時代哲學冥想的苦心。
B.L. Pasternak, writer of ＂Doctor Zhivago＂, is a brilliant poet and his notable poetries well reversed in the Soviet Union appear in a number of his published collections of poetry. However Pasternak himself aspires to write a novel where he can document all of his thoughts and observations. This unusual act is surprising, because readers do not usually take him as a novelist, nor is Pasternak an experienced writer for fictions. This essay aims to explore Pasternak's intension of his insistence on creating a fictional work to show the diversity and turbulent society of his era.This is what I consider Pasternak＂s ＂epic caring＂ by delivering a real situation and his philsophical meditation of his time.
