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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no advance publicity at all, Simon & Schuster last week published The Rainbow ($2.50). It is the $20,000 "Stalin Prize novel for 1943." Most U.S. readers do not associate Stalin with literary prizes and had never heard of the award before. They learned with surprise that The Rainbow (which most people confused with D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow) sold out a first Russian edition of 400,000 copies in two days.* A Russian movie has also been made of the book...
Other facts about Novelist Wasilewska were few. Soviet sources said that she was born in Cracow (1905). An old friend of the family was Jozef Pilsudski, once the head of the Polish Socialist Party's underground organization, who later became Marshal of Poland. Her first novel, The Face of the Day, was based on her youthful experiences in Poland's rural squalor. Nevertheless, she managed to go through Cracow University, where she took a degree in philosophy. She planned to teach, but unsympathetic Polish educators told her: "We want teachers, not somebody to make propaganda." So Wanda turned...
...Book. Of her novel ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who is himself an author (Mission to Moscow), says in a foreword: "The Rainbow [is] typical of modern, wartime Russia. First [it] is the work of a woman. Second, it is the work . . . of a Pole. Third, it is the work of a writer who has taken an active part in the political as well as literary affairs...
...Stalin Prize Novel is possibly one of the worst novels ever written. Its Germans are all villains. Its Russians (except a few survivors from pre-Bolshevik days) are all heroes. But as a hymn of Russian hate against Nazi Schrecklichkeit, the book is understandable. And as a fictional account of Nazi atrocities, it probably falls short of reality...
Last month Manhattan's small, exclusive Dial Press announced that it would soon publish the original version of one of the century's most blush-provoking literary works. This hitherto unpublished draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the late David Herbert Lawrence's distinguished novel about a titled lady who deserted her aristocratic but impotent husband for the family gamekeeper, will be issued next month in a first printing of 15,000 copies at $2.75 the copy...