I never could get through Dr. Zhivago. This time I tried The Last Summer, a short novel by Pasternak which takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia, and tells the story of a young Russian man, who has been disconcerted by his mother's death, and comes to spend some time with his sister in a factory town, but he falls asleep and dreams of his earlier years as a family tutor, when he fell in love with the Danish housekeeper but spent his time with prostitutes.
I couldn't understand it at all. Was it Pasternak or the translator? I will never know.
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