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Mysterious intermediaries have also offered European publishers an old Solzhenitsyn play, Banquet of Victors. Solzhenitsyn, who wrote the play in 1950 while serving in a labor camp, has often repudiated it. "It was not written by Solzhenitsyn, but by nameless prisoner No. SHCH 232," he told the Soviet Writers' Union in 1967, referring to the number he was given in prison. He also asserts that he destroyed all but one copy of the work, and that this was seized...
...Israel's most honored author and only Nobel laureate; of a heart attack; in Rehovot, Israel. Born in Galicia, victim and observer of half a century of stateless limbo in Europe, Agnon wrote with the wisdom of experience in his touching chronicles of the contemporary Wandering Jew-the nameless exile returned to the European town of his youth in A Guest for the Night; Kafkaesque fables of Jews transplanted from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was long...
Organizers stressed that the new coffee house is not in competition with the Nameless, another coffee house operating near the Yard. They said they are trying an entirely different approach to the coffee-house concept...
...Nameless is Successful
...Despite the financial problems, Feintuch feels the Nameless has been a success. "The Nameless is full every night, and sometimes we even have to turn, people away," he said. "Two and a half years ago we started out with some pretty raunchy talent," he admitted. But now, he says, the Nameless has succeeded in attracting many well-known singers, including some professionals...