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...young Marek Hlasko, 26, most gifted writer of Poland's restless postwar generation, life in West Berlin was a succession of binges. Ever since he refused to return to his Communist homeland (TIME, Oct. 20), he had been lionized in Berlin's literary salons. His blond good looks and his unpredictable James Dean moods made girls eager to comfort him. In a surge of euphoria, Hlasko would cry: "Writing is a wonderful occupation, almost as good as drinking!" Or, cryptically: "I can't dream about immortal fireflies, but I can fight for human freedom." Then depression would...
...heart with pretty Actress Sonja Ziemann, who had starred in his picture. But he said: "At first one believes in love. Then one crosses a border, a border of time. Then that belief, too, is lost." How long, someone asked, does it take to pass the time barrier? Hlasko answered cynically: "Five minutes...
Loud Whistle. But things went wrong. Hlasko put in a long-distance call to his sick mother and sister in Warsaw. He reported to a friend: "My mother said she is afraid she will never see me again. What could I tell her?" He became bored with the language lessons and abandoned them. He became a dreaded guest at parties given by Polish emigres. At one he began whistling through his fingers like "a Warsaw hooligan." When another guest proved he could whistle louder, Marek furiously overturned the table, smashing liquor bottles and china. The U.S. foundation quietly backed...
...Marek Hlasko, whose bitter novel The Eighth Day of the Week was a product of the temporary Polish thaw, has chosen voluntary exile, and he will not be welcomed back should he return. Polish Communist intellectuals, who have been spared some austerities under the Gomulka regime, are dismayed at the implications of the Pasternak case. "For many of them," the New York Times said, "what counted most was the belief that the whole episode would wind up in a much tougher attitude toward intellectuals...
...while, the heat was building up against him at home. The Soviet Union denounced him in the Literary Gazette. A provincial Polish town burned his books. The Warsaw party daily Trybuna Ludu blasted him as a disciple of George Orwell, "that classical master of anti-Communist pamphleteering." Marek Hlasko wrote an answering letter that Trybuna Ludu refused to publish. "It was not I who made Warsaw," said Hlasko bitterly, "that Warsaw that was for so many years a city without a smile; it was not I who made the Warsaw in which people trembled with fear...