The monograph characterizes Boris Pasternak’s prose as a whole, from youthful passages and letters to stories and the novel “Doctor Zhivago.” The generality of Pasternak's text is due to the fact that its main theme, and over time and plot, has always been the transformation of reality. The writer carried out two actions in prose: the “external” action of plot, and the “internal” action of transformation. At the same time, the “external” action was transmitted through experimental methods that changed over time. Their changes are associated both with individual literary evolution and with the action of general literary and general cultural factors. Neosyncretistic thinking, characteristic of Pasternak along with his contemporaries, gave rise to a crisis of the plot and ornamentalism of the early narrative. The prose technique of late Pasternak brought about a rapprochement between artistic and non-artistic words, expressing the pattern of development of Russian literature at the end of the 19th–20th centuries. The novel "Doctor Zhivago", in its concept and implementation, being on the verge of modernity and postmodernity, completed the Pushkin-Pasternak paradigm of Russian literature and was a step towards a new technique of writing in world literature. For teachers, students, researchers, everyone interested in the literary word and the development of Russian literature.