Word: ladislav
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TASTE OF POWER by Ladislav Mnacko. 235 pages. Praeger...
Last week a significant crack occurred in that system with the German-language publication in the West of The Taste of Power, by the Slovak writer Ladislav Mňačko. Although his book has not been published in Czechoslovakia, Mňačko, 47, made no attempt to crawl under cover. Setting a precedent for a "protest" novel, he dealt personally with Austrian Publisher Fritz Molden, expects his book to appear before long throughout Europe...
...About your story on Czechoslovak films [July 29]: Though you mention The Shop on Main Street, you ignore the film's author, Ladislav Grossman. Mr. Grossman, my childhood friend and schoolmate, wrote the story on the basis of very personal observation, and on the basis of the very personal suffering he underwent during World War II at the scene of the story. But for Mr. Grossman's great talent, there would have been no Shop on Main Street, and I fail to comprehend why the American habit of giving credit where credit is due is being so flagrantly...