While the Soviets were still trying to prevent its publication abroad, Pasternak gave a copy of his novel to Yevgeni Yevtushenko.
Say the authors,
Yevtushenko . . . was "disappointed."
He said the young writers of the post-Stalin period were attracted by the masculine prose of Hemingway, and the work of writers such as J. D. Salinger and Erich Maria Remarque.
Doctor Zhivago, in comparison, seemed old-fashioned, even a little boring, the work of an earlier generation.
He didn't finish reading it.
Reading The Zhivago Affair.
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