First Edition. Features black and white illustrations throughout, as well as an essay on Pastrenak's translating of Shakespeare. "Boris Pasternak recalls the incidents and influences that made him the poet and man he is," struggling for sincerity, safety, and success under a Communist regime in the Soviet Union that he was opposed to. Second only to his Nobel Prize winning efforts for Doctor Zhivago, this autobiographical sketch was considered by Pasternak to be his most important work. Dust jacket unclipped. Some instances of rubbing to jacket edges and spne. Closed cut across horizontal length of jacket spine. Top page edge shows faded dye.