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...number that identifies Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn on this week's cover is the same number that identified him all through his long years in a forced-labor camp. The serial style of the portrait, with its four panels showing Solzhenitsyn emerging from the faceless anonymity of the political prisoner, is an equally precise identification of the artist: Texas-born James Gill...
...country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ?Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle...
...have been told that your magazine reported that 1 have transmitted abroad Solzhenitsyn's last novel, Cancer Ward [May 31]. I categorically deny this. I have not been in the Soviet Union since 1964. This novel was finished in 1966. I don't personally know Solzhenitsyn, whom I admire deeply. And had I had an opportunity to publish his work, it would have been morally impossible for me to act against his will...
...copy of Cancer Ward turned up in Rome, where Publisher Alberto Mondadori in March copyrighted a Russian-language edition that he says was brought to him unsolicited. He now has an Italian edition in print and claims worldwide rights to the book. In Britain, a man purporting to represent Solzhenitsyn delivered a manuscript to the Bodley Head publishers, who plan to issue it Aug. 1. Eventually, the Soviets apparently got fed up with all the illicit excitement about the book. Victor Louis, a Moscow-based journalist who has run such other errands for the Russian government as selling a copy...
Still another copy of Cancer Ward went to Madame Helene Peltier-Zamoyska, the wispy Frenchwoman who spirited all the works of her old friends Sinyavsky and Daniel to the Polish exiles running Kultura magazine in Paris. As for Solzhenitsyn, rumored to be ailing from cancer himself, he has demanded that everyone cancel foreign publication of his book-not so much to prevent Westerners from reading it, probably, as to deprive the Soviet censors of one more excuse for banning it at home...