SOURCE: "Pasternak's Short Fiction," in Russian Literature Triquarterly, Vol. 3, May, 1972, pp. 279-302.
In the following excerpt, Mossman outlines Pasternak's "prose vision, " discussing thematic and stylistic aspects of Pasternak's short fiction. Mossman notes in particular Pasternak's focus on history, the individual, causality, estrangement, and the relationship between art and reality.
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