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...unknown. "Abram Tertz," his pseudonym, is the name of the Jewish hero of a ballad that passed the rounds in Moscow during the wave of anti-Jewish propaganda officially stirred up over the fake "Doctors' Plot" against Stalin's life in 1952. The book's manuscript was smuggled out of Russia to a group of anti-Communist Polish émigrés in France...
...made the additional point, recently emphasized by Fredson Bowers in Textual and Literary Criticism, that discussion of early plays must have its foundations in scientific bibliography. Twentieth-century Shakespearean scholarship depends upon the work of W.W. Greg and other textual scholars; the two volumes of Dover Wilson's The Manuscript of Shakespeare's Hamlet precede his What Happens in Hamlet...
...description of the hero's reaction to his father's death, and Wolfe came back within hours with thousands of words on the life history of the doctor who attended the father's final illness. Eventually, with Wolfe cursing and threatening, Perkins decided to take the manuscript away from him (it was packed in crates). Otherwise, Of Time and the River might never have been published...
...lacked the critical faculty essential to any complete artist, and was merely a collaborator with Perkins on the Scribner "assembly line." Wolfe cut himself free to prove that he could go it on his own. He died of brain tuberculosis four months after submitting a 1,200,000-word manuscript to his new editor at Harper's, who sliced it up to make The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, and a book of short stories. In this last torrent of words, the influence of Maxwell Perkins seems badly wanting...
...help it raise money for taxes, friends of the London Library put several prized manuscripts on the block of a local auctioneer. The final handwritten draft of A Passage to India, the great West-confronts-East novel by E. M. Forster, was knocked down for $18,200-said to be the highest price ever paid for a living author's manuscript. The buyer, a Manhattan rare books dealer, also picked up (for another client) a hand copy of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, faithfully duplicated by the poet in his own script because the original-last seen...