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...mountain folk that could have been made any time in the past three decades. Two survivors of the international film wars won special consolations, Grand Prize for Cinema Creation: France's Robert Bresson for L 'Argent, a lucid, listless parable about how money corrupts, and the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalgia, an agonizing stylistic exercise about a Soviet intellectual in Italy. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life won the Special Jury Prize. At the closing-night ceremony, Python Terry Jones thanked the jury members by name and quipped, "Your money is behind the wash basin." This...
...underscore Andropov's authority, the Soviet news agency TASS announced last week that Nobel Peace Prizewinning Physicist Andrei Sakharov, exiled to the city of Gorki since 1980, would not be allowed to accept an invitation from Vienna University to teach there for a year. The ostensible reason: Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb in the 1950s, knows too many state secrets...
...seems eminently logical. According to Moscow, the U.S. idea of trading Soviet SS-20s against a NATO promise to deploy fewer Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe would still leave the Soviet Union vulnerable to a surprise strike from British and French nuclear forces. Said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko last month: "Imagine that a terrible tragedy has occurred and that, say, a nuclear-tipped British missile is in flight. Should it carry the tag I AM BRITISH? And if it delivers its charge, people will die just as they would die from any other missile...
Meanwhile, there were indications last week that Moscow may have decided to rid itself quietly of some well-known dissidents. Austrian officials confirmed that Vienna University had sent Physicist Andrei Sakharov an invitation to serve as a guest professor for a year. Soviet officials hinted that Sakharov, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 and who has been exiled to Gorky, 230 miles east of Moscow, since January 1980, would be permitted to leave. Sakharov has refused previous invitations to travel outside the country, fearing that he would not be allowed to return. But his wife, Human Rights Activist...
...inside. But if his background is unclear, Erofeev's literary heritage is not: his prose is in the great Russian grotesque tradition, hearkening back to Gogol by way of such earlier Soviet satirists as Bulgakov, Zamyatin, and Zoshchenko. There are also traces of authors as diverse as the Symbolist Andrei Bely (in some of the bizarre urban imagery). Rabelais, and J.D. Salinger (whose Catcher in the Rye was widely circulated in the Soviet Union...