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"Boris Pasternak. Tragic Pages ”- a book written by Lev Shapiro, will not get lost in the vast literature about the great poet. In addition to the biography of Pasternak, it contains a lot of information that will interest the reader. — The history of the Nobel Prize is described in detail. - Indignant responses to the persecution of Pasternak by political and public figures from all over the world are given. For example, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, the American Committee for the Defense of Cultural Freedom, Jawaharlal Nehru and others. Among those demanding an end to the persecution of Pasternak were famous writers - Albert Camus, Alberto Moravia, John Steinbeck and others. Those whom the Soviet government considered loyal to it also joined in expressing indignation. These are Stalin Prize laureates American Howard Fast and Chilean Pablo Neruda. - The book contains a wealth of illustrative material - copies of the responses of the foreign press to the award of the Nobel Prize to Pasternak, and then to his persecution, the cartoons that accompanied these publications. - In the "Documents" section, the Memoirs of the members of the then Soviet government are published, as well as a transcript of the meeting of the Union of Writers of the USSR on the exclusion of Boris Pasternak from its ranks. - Finally, those who did not even plan to visit the Poet's House-Museum in Peredelkino, after looking at the photographs of the museum, will certainly want to come there to "breathe the air" of the great Russian poet.