Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong conviction like Soviet Poet Evtushenko [April 13] who hold the hope for an informed Russia. We Americans can learn from this article that the Russians are not so different from ourselves, and that our similar desire for the truth is a bond that no political difference can destroy...
Going to the other extreme, some Western critics have hopefully deduced from his unpopularity with Stalinist critics that Evtushenko is a rebel against the system and a secret ally of the West. In fact, though not a party member, he is permitted exceptional latitude only because he is careful to leave his basic allegiance to country and system in no doubt. "For my death." In country." he criticizing writes, its "my life abuses, he and ex my plains, his aim is to improve, not destroy, the Soviet society. Says he: "The banner is undefiled. even though some of its bearers...
Creative Schizophrenia. Zhenya was 19 when Stalin died. In revulsion from political themes, he sought refuge in love lyrics. The conservative critics who had effusively praised his first, insipid book of verse savaged his second, making the book an overnight hit and Zhenya a national name. Ever since, says Evtushenko. he has suffered from creative schizophrenia ; when he writes love poetry he is attacked for escapism ; when he returns to social themes he is faulted for wasting his lyric talent. The same ambivalence, he grins, marks Pushkin, his idol. His other heroes: Boris Pasternak; Hemingway, "my favorite prose writer...
Along with Evtushenko, almost all the ablest writers of the New Left are preoccupied with the doubts and dreams of Soviet youth. The most notable: Vladimir Tendryakov, a young prose writer whose most memorable story, about an escaped convict who bilks his rescuers, is a horrifying allegory aimed subtly at ex-Convict Joseph Stalin; Victor Rozov, most censured and celebrated for a script about a disturbed youth who cannot understand how his elders could defend evil from political necessity; Vasily Aksenov, whose young jets are pictured as mixed-up idealists; Victor Nekrasov, a psychological novelist with a penchant...
...Numbers. Evtushenko has powerful friends at court, notably Voronov, a member of Pravda's editorial board, and, through him, Izvestia Editor Alexis Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. Another influential supporter is 71-year-old Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave history's chapter heading to destalinization. In 1960 Evtushenko rated a passport, has subsequently wandered widely in Western Europe, Africa and elsewhere abroad. On two trips to Cuba he gathered material for a movie scenario, visited the house where Hemingway wrote...