The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.

  • -- Boris Pasternak 鲍里斯·帕斯捷尔纳克

作者是现代社会的浮士德,是大众时代唯一幸存的个人主义者。在他同时代的正统派人士看来,他似乎是个半疯子。