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“... one of the excellent commentaries with which he has interspersed this very remarkable translation, Elliott Mossman points out how ‘élitist’, in the current cant, was Pasternak’s view of art and of the function and position of the artist. As it happens, the liberal and the Communist or Soviet view of art’s status more or less agree on the point ...”

“... Russia after travelling to Berlin for medical treatment in 1921). This archive was the basis for Elliott Mossman’s publication in 1982 of a volume of letters between Freidenberg and Boris Pasternak, which in addition to the letters included many of Freidenberg’s autobiographical jottings, under the heading ‘Diary’.Russian literary scholars have ...”