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...LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (210 pp.)-Alexander Solzhenitsyn -Praeger...
...importance of the book was not lost on two U.S. publishers who raced to be first in print. It was a dead heat. Both versions appeared the same day at the same price. Dutton, offering the "authorized" version, is paying royalties to the Soviet government. Praeger is pirating the book on the ground that Russia, which refuses to join world copyright agreements, pirates U.S. books. Publisher Frederick Praeger was so excited by his steal that he locked one translator in his Greenwich Village house for eleven days, and moved in two editors, two typists, and "enormous quantities of Scotch...
Bleak Notations. The hypocrisy of the code of socialist realism is equally repellent to Yesenin-Volpin. His Russia is one of pain ("The only beauty that I know"), drugs, suffering, alcoholism, prison; many of the poems in The Leaf of Spring (Praeger; $3) bear such bleak notations as Lubyanka, Karaganda and Prison of Chernovtsy-the jails, mental institutions and concentration camps where Yesenin-Volpin has spent most of his adult life...
ANATOMY OF A MORAL (181 pp.)-Milovan Djilas-Praeger...
BITTER HARVEST (313 pp.)-Edited by Edmund Stillman, introduction by François Bondy-Praeger...