27 FEBRUARY 1982, page 23

Fiction

An Australian classic Lucy Hughes-Hallett 1 n his preface to the revised edition of this 24 year-old novel'Randolph Stow admits to the grandeur of the ambitions of his youth.......

Pasternakiana

Ronald Hingley T hough Boris Pasternak was more of a poet than anything else, he is chieflY known to the world at large for his only long prose work, the novel Doctor Zhivago.......