Everyday life and catastrophe in the novel "Doctor Zhivago"

The article presents a narratological study into peculiarities of eventfulness in B. Pasternak's novel Doctor Zhivago. The categories of everyday life and catastrophe as zero eventfulness and supereventfulness are introduced that are not exhaustively studied by narratology. Catastrophic consequences of the war and revolution destroy everyday life as non-eventful background of the related story. But as the lyrical discourse invades the narrative, the image of everyday life acquires the eventful character, and the very possibility of making a radical distinction between the event and everyday life vanishes. An individual's creative act can oppose both chaos of the overall catastrophe and the profane connection between narrative events that are found to be integrated into the sacralized everyday routine of being.