‘Pasternak’s novel is a political lampoon, and a lampoon is not literature. You can din a brush in tar and daub a thick coat of it on a fence, but this is not art-tar is not paint and a tar brush is not an artist’s brush. Pasternak’s novel is reactionary journalism of a low order in the guise of literary work.’
I totally understand this…In a similar way, Liu XiaoBo……
After all, Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in Novyi mir, which not only provoked excited debate between liberals and conservatives but even disturbs readers who embraced the de-Stalinism rhetoric of the Twenty-Second Party Congress.
