Page "Boris Pasternak" Paragraph 38

In a letter written to his sister Josephine, however, Pasternak recalled the words of his friend Ekaterina Krashennikova upon reading Doctor Zhivago.

She had said, " Don't forget yourself to the point of believing that it was you who wrote this work.

It was the Russian people and their sufferings who created it.

Thank God for having expressed it through your pen.