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Author QuotedYevgeny Yevtushenko
Title QuotedPrecocious Autobiography
Date (Year/Month/Day)1963/09/20
Imprint[S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1963
QuotationFinally-[Yevgeny] Yevtushenko's autobiography [A Precocious Autobiography, 1963]. Unquestionably good, lively, powerful. Here is real newness of life. Wonderfully encouraging in its sincerity. A powerfully moving description of the publication of "Babi Yar" in the Literary Gazette with the typesetter offering him vodka.
Quotation SourceDancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 18
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