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This thriller carries heavy baggage: encomiums from Nobel Laureates Saul Bellow and Czeslaw Milosz. But Richard Lourie is equal to the burden. First Loyalty has a compelling cast and a labyrinthine plot that twists from Siberia to the Bronx. Perhaps the most odious individual is the exiled dissident poet Evgeny Shar. To him crime is just "politics without the excuses." His nemesis, Writer David Aronow, scrapes by translating "the endless memoirs of people from countries where nothing ever worked out well." KGB Colonel Anton Vinias, responsible for instigating Western soccer riots, believes reality is simply "documentary footage, crying...
...reports, he described his son's 1982 Yale graduation from the purported perspective of "a flinty old friend . . . from the country" attending the graduation of a grandniece. He devised a similar character, and fictitious dialogue, to report a speech at New York University by Nobel-Prizewinning Poet Czeslaw Milosz. Reid's explanation: using a fictional persona helped him overcome writer's block. Personae, such as "our man Stanley," and pseudonyms, such as the railroad buff "E.M. Frimbo," are common devices in "Talk...
Joel I. Goodfader resuscitated the Harvard International Review, a monthly journal on international politics. As one of the editors, he lined up major figures to contribute to the review, including Atlanta Mayer Andrew. Young, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. Staff members said he was an inspiration...
...line like Steven famous "Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is "Does he simply stop writing having discovered and assereted a great word' Libby mentions this phenomena almost as a clinical analyst of the process of aging he does not answer however. Lithuanian poet Czeslaw Milosz's contention that the poet's duty must be the discovery of hope...
...explored the pathways to the Utopias that have led to police terror and violence. By then it was clear that Hungary's national tragedy had cast up a major writer, in a class with West Germany's Heinrich Böll and the Polish exile Czeslaw Milosz...