Word: roitschwantz
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Religious Black Market. In their speculative notes on the unknown author, the editors of Encounter compare "Abram Tertz'' with Ilya Ehrenburg-in-exile, the scoffer who could write The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (TIME, Aug. 22) before he turned party hack. It would not be the oddest thing about this strange and wonderful book if it turned out that Ehrenburg was in fact "Abram Tertz." Perhaps only the "psychoscope," a plug-in device invented by the secret policemen Tolya and Vitya to trace the private thoughts of citizens, will ever know the truth...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. In 1927 the slithiest tove in the Soviet literary propaganda corps aimed this sizzling satirical poker at the Russian Revolution. Ehrenburg recently denounced its publication in the West, an act the non-hero of this kosher Candide would have relished...
...Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz, by Ilya Ehrenburg. A previously untranslated 1927 satire of revolutionary Russia by the man who is now Communism's No. 1 journalistic Pooh-Bah. This kosher Candide reincarnates the nonhero of Jewish folklore: Peter Schlemiel, the enemy of commissar...
...outrageous odyssey continues in France and Britain, but Author Ehren burg would have been wise to recognize that satire on those countries is best left to natives. He does better in what the Soviets had taught Roitschwantz to call "that criminal country, Palestine." By now, he is a "miserable leaf chased by a hundred-year-old storm," his "body a passport," a palimpsest of bruises, and he is on his way to his 19th jail. In Palestine he finds a people who "wanted to organize a stock market in a Biblical manner," Jews beat other Jews for smoking...
...wonder why a man like Ehrenburg, who could swear so eloquently against everything that is ridiculous in sacred Soviet institutions, should have been a willing Communist straight man for the last 30 years. Perhaps the answer lies in Ehrenburg's epitaph for his hero: "Rest in peace, poor Roitschwantz! You will not dream any longer of justice, or of a piece of sausage." Ehrenburg may simply have settled for the piece of sausage...