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Ever since the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago was smuggled out of the Soviet Union, some of Russia's best writing has been published only in the West. Despite its liberalization since Stalin's death, Russia remains full of talented, frustrated authors who are denied an audience in their own country and hunger to be read. Publication abroad can lead straight to prison-as it did for Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, who in 1966 were sentenced to seven-and five-year terms for allowing their biting satirical novels to escape across the border...
...Ward turned up in Rome, where Publisher Alberto Mondadori in March copyrighted a Russian-language edition that he says was brought to him unsolicited. He now has an Italian edition in print and claims worldwide rights to the book. In Britain, a man purporting to represent Solzhenitsyn delivered a manuscript to the Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue it Aug. 1. Eventually, the Soviets apparently got fed up with all the illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy of Svetlana Alliluyeva...
Mozart left about 50 incomplete works, and Levin spent about 17 months completing two of these for his senior thesis. He went to Paris last summer to study the original manuscript...
Biographer Webb, a former advertising copywriter and actress, is on fresher ground when she chronicles his years in the North. Much of the material is drawn from the last third of the Black Boy manuscript, which did not appear in the finished book. In Chicago, Wright worked at odd menial jobs and encountered the same fears and prejudices he had left at home. He worked nights as a postal clerk and spent his days reading and "filling endless pages with stream-of-consciousness Negro dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the black belt as he felt and saw them...
...Brahms may have destroyed three times the number of compositions he saved. He left only three published works for violin, cello and piano. A fourth, which the Beaux Arts Trio has recorded for the first time, is attributed to the youthful Brahms by a scholar who found the unsigned manuscript in 1924. The well-known B Major is still the strongest of the trios, and its adagio is beautifully sung by the deep bronze-voiced cello of Bernard Greenhouse, the American-born member of the international Beaux Arts Trio, whose voices blend smoothly together and also echo each other lightly...