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Reviews

1. ” [A.L.] has succeeded admirably in presenting Pasternak’s main writings on his experience and understanding of art. The anthology spans nearly half a century and includes articles, speeches, notes, the autobiographical ‘A Safe-Conduct’, and lengthy extracts from ‘Doctor Zhivago’.”

Gordon McVay, Slavic Review, Spring, 1988

2. “All the materials are expertly translated and supplied with absorbing introductory commentaries and notes. . .  Gradually, a life lived in and for literature unfolds before our eyes.”

Julian Graffy, Times Higher Education Supplement, 4. October 1985

3. “One of the most important books on Pasternak to have been written so far.”

Christopher Barnes, Slavonic and East European Review, 83, 3, 1988.