| Author Quoted | Boris Pasternak |
| Title Quoted | Safe Conduct: An Autobiography and other Writings |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/05/31 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : New Directions. 1958 |
| Quotation | I just learned of the death of poor old Pasternak... I cannot help thinking that within a few years Russia is going to regard him as one of her very great writers, and Zhivago will be widely read there. I do not, as he did, repudiate his earlier work. To my mind Safe Conduct is still very remarkable and there are some passages in it which are superb. I must reread his earlier stories too. I hope Pasternak wil be a vital link between Russia's past and her future. |
| Quotation Source | Thomas Merton and James Laughlin: Selected Letters.; Edited by David D. Cooper. / New York: W.W. Norton. 1997, p. 155 |
| Letter to | James Laughlin |
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