Poetry and prose are inseparable. Moreover, 'prose in its primordial intensity is poetry.' It is 'a magical art, bordering on alchemy,' wrote Boris Pasternak. Finding 'the melody of nature amidst the noise of the dictionary' and discerning humanity through the motley detritus of the era, without distorting the voice of life that resounds within each of us—these are the few things that are essential to a true artist. Prose was never something incidental or secondary for Pasternak. He turned to it throughout his life, finishing what remained unexpressed in poetry and paving the way for his magnum opus, the novel Doctor Zhivago.
The collections present prose works by Boris Pasternak, created at different times in his life: 'The Apelles Trait,' 'The Childhood of Luvers,' 'Safe Conduct,' 'Air Routes,' 'Patrick's Notes,' and others.