Boris Pasternak as seen by V. Khodasevich and “Gulliver”
Personal and literary relations between Vladislav Khodasevich and Boris Pasternak can hardly be reconstructed from a rather limited number of documents, statements and circumstantial evidence. At the same time, the topic is very interesting for the historian of literature, because reflects not only the confrontation between two contemporary poets, but also two completely different poetic systems. Literary chronicle (from the beginning of the next year it was published under the signature “Gulliver”), which Khodasevich led together with Nina Berberova for more than twelve years in the emigrant newspaper “Vozrozhdeniye”, sheds light on some aspects of the relationship between Khodasevich and Pasternak, especially in the 1930s, when we practically do not meet Khodasevich's authorized statements about Pasternak.