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Latin American fiction periodically ar rives like an out-of-touch cousin on a vacation trip. In the voice of translation, it speaks of strong family resemblances: realism, surrealism, stream of conscious ness, political protest and satire. The visitor is wined, dined, praised for its variety and daring. Then, with a hearty abrazo, Latin American fiction departs and North Americans go back to what they like to read best: costumed romance and novelized journalism...
...years later Pasternak had completed the first part of his novel, which he then envisioned as a two-volume work. The book, he wrote his cousin in 1948, is "not even intended for current publication. Furthermore, I am not even writing it as a work of art, although it is literature in a deeper sense than anything I have ever done before. But I just don't know whether there is any art left in this world, or what art means." Following this veiled reference to Stalin's purges of the artistic intelligentsia, then raging in Moscow, Pasternak...
That Ivinskaya served two terms in the Gulag for her association with Pasternak is well known. This book discloses for the first time that Pasternak's cousin Sasha Freidenberg, Olga's brother, was arrested in 1937 and died in the camps, one of the millions of innocent victims of Stalin's Great Purge. Sasha's wife Musya, who was arrested before he was, survived...
...during the Great Purge. An architect, Alexander helped design and supervise the construction of the Moscow-Volga Canal, which was built by slave labor in 1936. According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal from Kalinin's hands," Freidenberg wrote. "The idea was preposterous...
Dellow's findings and Home Secretary William Whitelaw's report on it to the Commons last week were harshly critical of palace security. Since the murder in 1979 of Earl Mountbatten, the Queen's cousin, by Irish terrorists, $3.5 million has been spent on electronic beams, microwave barrier fences, closed-circuit TV, remote-controlled locks, reinforced doors and other security measures at Buckingham Palace. Yet Fagan was able to move about at will. The worst failings, however, were human ones. "If police officers had been alert and competent," said Dellow's report sharply, "Fagan would have...