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...MINERVA (375 pp.)-Gustav Regler-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...Gustav Regler's autobiography reads as if it were ghostwritten, it is probably because it was written by a ghost. The ghost is Regler himself, in his time a noisy political poltergeist. With a good man's dedication to his delusions, he played a man's part in inhuman situations throughout three dreadful decades...
Fate and temperament tangled Regler's life in the great philosophical confrontations of this century and their bloody outcome. Therefore, unlike the autobiographies of happier men, his depends on an understanding of the forces of which he made himself a servant. This understanding is often missing, or at best offers the cold comfort of wisdom after the event. As his first political experience-when he was a boy of five in his home town in the German Saarland-Regler recalls watching a policeman drag the local tailor by the ear up the town hall steps to face judgment...
False Monastery. Regler's nature-his excess of pity, turning to rage when frustrated-would have given him a hard time in any society. In the chaos of Germany after World War I, it marked him for the Communist Party, which he joined with the simple feeling that "things can't go on like this." There is a good deal of spiritual agonizing and plain blundering before he winds his way out and comes to terms with reality. But, unlike so many other ex-Communist apologias, this is not an exercise in self-justification; Regler does not claim...
...them like an unwelcome letter one postpones opening. A particularly doubt-provoking occasion was one he shared with Andre Malraux in Moscow in 1934. At the time, both men were prize exhibits in the Communist cultural front-Malraux, already a rising novelist (Man's Fate) and touring revolutionary. Regler, a noted refugee writer living in Paris (he had fled Germany just after the Nazis seized power in 1933). Cultured Comrades Regler and Malraux had to listen while Maxim Gorky key-noted a writers' jamboree with piffle that reached the lower depths of unreason. Gorky's dialectical materialist...