Word: nekrasov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEAN by Viktor Nekrasov. 191 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...these magazine articles, written on his return to Russia, Novelist Viktor Nekrasov said so many nice things about the U.S. and so many uncomplimentary things about his own country that he was denounced for "bourgeois objectivism" and threatened with expulsion from the Communist Party. The least controllable of the 16-man Russian delegation picked to visit the U.S., Nekrasov panicked the tour leader by always going off on little walks of his own. He marveled at Manhattan skyscrapers and abstract art, happily guzzled Coca-Cola, bought aspirin on the advice of TV commercials. In passing, Nekrasov takes a swipe...
...intense psychological probing of the great prison accounts of a Dostoevsky or an Ivo Andric. Even its political significance, which is considerable, should not be exaggerated. Stalin may be fair game for critics in Russia, but the Communist Party and ideology are still off limits. Another novelist, Victor Nekrasov, was recently reprimanded by Izvestia (TIME, Feb. 1) for his comments on traveling in the U.S. He made the mistake, scolded Izvestia, of "painting a fifty-fifty picture of American life," and even "applying his fifty-fifty rule to a comparison of America and Russia...
After several weeks of stunned silence. Moscow's cultural commissars last week slapped Stalin Prizewinner Nekrasov good and hard. His "insulting attitude" toward the security official was bad enough, huffed an editorial in Izvestia. Worse, said the paper, "it is altogether unclear how a Soviet writer contrives not to see the striking social contrasts and class contradictions of American life and the military psychosis fanned by imperialist circles." Nekrasov's error was in trying to give a balanced picture-''black and white sides of American life on a fifty-fifty basis." This, ruled Izvestia, was nothing...
...would have been a perfect trip, in fact, but for the ever-present security agent assigned to shepherd Nekrasov's 19-man delegation of Russian writers, teachers and engineers. "He was in a state of constant worry, and counted us every minute like chickens," complained Nekrasov. "The most terrible thing for him was if you said. 'I don't want to go to the National Gallery; I want to go to the Guggenheim, or just walk down Broadway.' It was this 'just walking' that he feared in particular for some reason...