Page "Boris Pasternak" Paragraph 37

On 9 September 1958, the Literary Gazette critic Viktor Pertsov retaliated by denouncing, " the decadent religious poetry of Pasternak, which reeks of mothballs from the Symbolist suitcase of 1908-10 manufacture.

" Furthermore, the author received much hate mail from Communists both at home and abroad.

According to Ivinskaya, Pasternak continued to receive such letters for the remainder of his life.