Word: panova
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Childhood, at any rate, is alien to whatever divides and envenoms mankind. In this slender, sensitively wrought novel, Vera Panova has skillfully mirrored the child's healing universality...
...context, their individual scenes and episodes wither. The authors of such books are easy to underestimate because they are so difficult to praise. Speaking softly on some quiet theme, they say little that is arresting, even when they are subtly telling all that is important. Russian Novelist Vera Panova is such a writer. Her subject: the day-to-day life of a six-year...
...Author Panova shares Boris Pasternak's poetic affection for the Russian land. Serioja races across "black velvet ploughland" or watches the white-snow cling like "fat white caterpillars on the branches of the trees." Toward novel's end, the boy tastes bitter desolation when his stepfather is assigned a new post, and it appears that Serioja's health may force the family to leave him behind. At the last moment, seeing that parting will destroy the child, the stepfather scoops him up in a happy ending that is movingly true to the essential spirit of the book...
...onetime winner of the Stalin Prize, Author Panova has been in and out of favor with the Soviet's politico-literary authorities. The chief charge against her: "Objectivity." Time Walked, too, is objective in that it is honestly observed, cleanly written, and as free of sentimentality as it is rich in compassion...