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When the U.S.S.R.'s most popular novelist, Mikhail Sholokhov, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965, he was acclaimed by the Swedish Academy for "the artistic force and integrity" of his four-part classic The Quiet Don. This week his fellow Nobel prizewinner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, accused Sholokhov of plagiarism in a preface to a critical study of The Quiet Don* published in Paris. Solzhenitsyn declared that the real author of the epic tale of Don Cossacks in World War I and the Russian civil war was Fyodor Kryukov, a Cossack writer...
NONFICTION 1-All the President's Men, Bernstein & Woodward (1) 2-The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn (2) 3-The Memory Book, Lorayne & Lucas(3) 4-You Can Profit from a Monetary Crisis, Browne (5) 5-Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, Read (4) 6-Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller (8) 7-The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Marchetti & Marks (6) 8-The Wall Street Gang, Ney (7) 9-Chief!, Seedman & Hellman 10-An American Life, Magruder
...Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn...
...clear now to thoughtful members of the literary apparat that a critic who praises an Iron Curtain writer does so at considerable risk to his reputation as a subtle fellow. Some variant of the skepticism now being directed at Solzhenitsyn is sure to tar the enthusiast. "A great soul, certainly," it will be said, "with great lumps on his head from those rubber truncheons, but a great writer ... ?" The message is stern: under an oppressive state, all artists may be persecuted, but not all those persecuted are artists...
...Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn...