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...Soviet leadership is capable of delicate literary irony. The entire Presidium filed past Fadeyev's coffin...
Typing Hyenas. Fadeyev was ordered aboard the great Communist peace bandwagon and sent off to Wroclaw to deliver a vodka-primed attack on the U.S. There he talked of the "disgusting filth" emanating from American culture and spoke of "trite films . . . reactionary waste paper such as TIME" and American swing, a "contemporary version of St. Vitus' dance ..." Said he, speaking of the work of Writers John Dos Passos, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, André Malraux, Jean Paul Sartre: "If hyenas could type and jackals could use fountain pens, they would produce such works." Next year, attending...
...silence in the Union of Soviet Writers. Then, almost two years later, under the weight of Ilya Ehrenburg's The Thaw, the ice broke. But no Writers' Union congress could revive the dead, nor could so many veteran sycophants make sense of their new function. Sensing change, Fadeyev handed down a new line, appealed for less "socialist realism." At the sensational 20th Party Congress last February, Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov (whose way of protesting the Stalinist regime had been to produce almost no creative work since he wrote The Quiet Don two decades ago) made an outright attack...
...preface by his widow referring to his "arrest based on the slander of provocateurs." In the strange dialectic of Communist Russia, yes was rapidly becoming no. An old Stalin-line man could no longer remain indifferent. Last week Tass News Agency reported the end. In his luxurious apartment, Alexander Fadeyev shot himself. The cause, said Tass, was chronic alcoholism and "grave mental depression...
Died. Alexander A. Fadeyev, 55, top Soviet literary theorist of the late Stalin era (The Rout, Young Guard); reportedly by his own hand; in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS...