 Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize–winning novelist, responded to "The Education" by using Navrozov as the model for a modern Russian dissident thinker in two of his books, thereby beginning a lively correspondence that continued until the American novelist's death.In particular, the narrator of "More Die of Heartbreak" describes Navrozov, along with Sinyavsky, Vladimir Maximov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, as one of his epoch's "commanding figures" and "men of genius.