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...September 1967, Solzhenitsyn had a direct confrontation with about 30 functionaries of the Writers' Union, headed by the regime's literary spokesman, Konstantin Fedin. Solzhenitsyn charged anew that his manuscripts had been stolen by the KGB, that publication of Cancer Ward in Novy Mir had been held up so long that there was danger of samizdat copies making
...Fedin demanded that "vou must, above all, protest against the dirty use of your name by our enemies in the West." One writer told Solzhenitsyn to his face that "Cancer Ward makes you throw up when you read it," and urged Solzhenitsyn to follow the critic's own example: "I always try to write only about happy things." Replied Solzhenitsyn: "The task of the writer is to treat universal and eternal themes: the mysteries of the heart and conscience, the collision between life and death, the triumph over spiritual anguish." He told his accusers with bitter humor that he knew...
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