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Solzhenitsyn's Place in Contemporary Soviet Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Max Hayward
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I am so completely in agreement with the main points of Victor Erlich's diagnosis—particularly with the lucidly formulated conclusions in the last few pages—that I shall confine myself to the one issue on which I dissent from his judgment—namely, his opinion of Solzhenitsyn.

A few words to begin with about the general approach of Western observers to Soviet literature. Professor Erlich rightly dwells on the question of the relationship between politics and literature, and I would like to reinforce his sagacious plea for the maintenance of a "viable balance between literary and political considerations."

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Slavic Review , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , September 1964 , pp. 432 - 436
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1964

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References

1 “Soviet Literature during the Thaw,” in Literature and Revolution in Soviet Russia, 1917-62, p. 136.

2 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, p. 206.

3 Quoted in Wolfgang Leonard, The Kremlin since Stalin (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1962), p. 190.