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...LOSER by George Konrád Translated by Ivan Sanders; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 315 pages...
...latest novel, The Loser, Konrád takes the ultimate journey of the modern European, piling up horror upon horror on the way: the Holocaust, the Gulag, the carnage of World War II, the postwar purges in Eastern Europe, the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising. The literature documenting the inhumanity of the age is vast. Yet Konrád's masterly new novel offers fresh insight into the cruel stratagems of totalitarian rule...
...concede that there would be no conclave. As always, he tried to have the final word. "Contrary to what many think," Gaddafi declared, "the fact that the O.A.U. leaders have come to Tripoli twice to attend the [summit] is a victory for the Libyan people." The only loser was the O.A.U...
...brawler with the looks of a fallen angel, and he sneers at emotion: "My mother loved me but she died." Hud is rotten. He is trying to have his father declared incompetent so he can sell his ranch to oilmen. But Newman gave him a crooked, loser-winner smile that caught at the heart, and although the script didn't really justify it, he was a scapegrace hero...
...loser in this battle for allocations will be the Soviet consumer. Accustomed to a steady, though scarcely dramatic, rise in the standard of living under Brezhnev, Soviet citizens may have to settle for no further improvement in the 1980s. But they are not likely to rebel openly. Lacking any genuine forum in which to express dissatisfaction, Soviet consumers will probably do little more than grumble. Andropov, with his KGB background, may deal more harshly with strikes or other eruptions of anger that might occur. Says Historian Walter Laqueur: "Expect tighter discipline rather than liberalism, but expect some economic reforms...