Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...story's narrator purports to be a ditchdigger in the Kolyma River forced-labor camp, which has been almost empty since a recent amnesty-"only some 10,000 of us, dangerous criminals, were left." With bitter irony, he professes to have flushed the torn-up manuscript of his book down the toilet. It was recovered and pieced together only through the diligence and ingenuity of Tolya and Vitya, two secret policemen, members of "the dread invisible army," who have invented a special sewer-searching technique for screening the citizenry's most private acts...
...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...