Famously, after Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, a flood of derogatory letters were published in Soviet newspapers, each be

Famously, after Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, a flood of derogatory letters were published in Soviet newspapers, each beginning with "I have not read the novel..." As a result, Pasternak was forced to decline the Nobel Prize.