352 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Prologue: This is Doctor Zhivago : may it make its way around the world The roof over the whole of Russia has been torn off Pasternak, without realizing it, entered the personal life of Stalin I have arranged to meet you in a novel You are aware of the anti-Soviet nature of the novel? Until it is finished, I am a fantastically, manically unfree man Not to publish a novel like this would constitute a crime against culture If this is freedom seen through Western eyes, well I must say we have a different view of it We tore a big hole in the Iron Curtain We'll do it black He also looks the genius : raw nerves, misfortune, fatality There would be no mercy, that was clear Pasternak's name spells war I am caught like a beast at bay A college weekend with Russians An unbearably blue sky It's too late for me to express regret that the book wasn't published Afterword
