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...Cancer Ward has been published in an English translation. As a special kind of literary import, it stands partially obscured by the excess political baggage that has accompanied it. The kinds of labels inevitably suggested by the advance publicity are gross and distracting: savage expose of Stalinism; revealing political microcosm; old cold-war propaganda. The reader is thus challenged to slip past the luggage and the labels into the heart of the book...
...already garbled message was further confused by electronic blips telling Wallace voters DO NOT ALTER YOUR BALLOT or A VOTE FOR WALLACE-GRIFFIN IS A VOTE FOR WALLACE-LEMAY. The former name was on the ballot in most states and that confusion seemed a microcosm of the campaign...
...guardians and nourishers of free inquiry and expression. They are by their very nature the very custodians of our cultural heritage and the progenitors of a new day. They should be the testing ground for any and all ideas, even foolish ones. The American university should be in microcosm what we would wish for the American society, a free and open community filled with searching and thinking individuals, each seeking his own answers in his own way, yet each extending full respect for the ideals and life styles of others...
...never been made so frighteningly real. Next month, Collins of London is bringing out a far better translation of The First Circle .? The second novel is Cancer Ward, based on the author's own struggle with cancer. It employs the familiar device of the hospital as microcosm of a sick world. Versions are being published in Britain by the Bodley Head and in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Dial Press. The appearance of these works is a literary event of the first magnitude?and inevitably a major political event as well...
...Player. Is Wolf God? Or merely man trying to spell God with the wrong mental blocks? Either, or both, is possible. Wolf's academy seems a splendid microcosm for mirroring a civilization and its discontents. Unhappily, as the book progresses, Stern slights the academy in favor of a labyrinthine exploration of Wolf's hang-ups. To the useful tale of his youth, Stern ties a string of current circumstances, including a preposterously pregnant ex-wife and a mad film director whose sole purpose is to prove that God, man and Wolf are all prisoners of their past...