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MEN Er IDEAS
& JEWISH MARGINALITY. 46
AMERICAN CHRONICLE
LIFE & DEATH IN THE U.S.A. 57 Melvin Ma4c1 s
POETRY
BOOKS Er WRITERS
RIGHTS & WRONGS 67 Lorna Sage
MARGINAL SALVATIONS 72 Douglas Dunn "
THE VIRTUES OF LAUGHTER 78 Geojrey Strickland
EAST & WEST
John Fuller 25, Alan Brownjohn 62, Seamus Heaney 63, Susan Schaefer 92
THE CASE OF COMRADE BLTgHARI3:N 81
DOCUMENTS
Gunter Grass & Andrey Sinyavsky : A Controversial Exchange 94
LETTERS 93
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DEAR NDREY
YAVSKY,
DEAR ALEXANDER
SoL2nENSTSYN,
I have been asked by
the . director of the
Ullstein-Verlag, Wolf
Jobst Sledler, to write a
few words of welcome to
the new journal Konti-
nent with which you
asmuch as 1-along with many of my fellow-writers
in WesternEurope-sympathised with yourplight and
tried our best to help when you were being persecuted
and sentenced and imprisoned, or being prevented
from working as professional writers in the Soviet
Union, I take the liberty of telling you, without
mincing words, what I think of your project.
It should, after all, be known to you that as authors
in thejournal Kontinent you will be working together
with a certain power empire, famous under the name
of the Springer-Konzern, whose reactionary intoler-
ance is an expression of the same mentality which,
under different ideological markings, forced you in
the Sos4er Limon to protest and.to resist.
I cannot understand how you, as writers with
moral criteria, could through such a collaboration
offer support to a power complex so dangerous to
Western democracy. Each day in the publications of
the Springer-Konzern (i,,"iether they're called
"Biki-Zeitung" or "Welt am Sonniag") there is
disseminated exactly that which you experienced
in the . Soviet Union, if In totalitarian extent,.
namely, falsification of information according to
doctrinaire opinions, demonisation of political
opponents, appeal to the latent violence in the so-
called silent majority, the condemnation of the
accused as already guilty-all of which has led your
fellow-writers to feel anxious, about the future of
democracy in the Bundesrepubitik. In terms of
politics the ideological anti-Communism of the
Springer Konzern is only a reflex action in response
to Leninism-Stalinism; - and just as Western
private capitalism and Communist state capitalism
can fund themselves united throughout the world when
it comes to blocking a third way and to repressing
whether in Chile in 1973, or in Czechoslovakia in
1968-democratic socialism, so is the Springer-
Konzern a part of that Power of Money or Statism,
whose corrupt activities both you and ]fear so much.
Must one, in order to express a justified opposition.
so totalitarian communism, seek support from those
forces who were never seriously annoyed by
Western dictatorships and who in anti-Communist
blindness are altogether prepared to drive out the
communist Devil with the fascist Beelzebub?
For all my respect for the courage which you
demonstrated in the Soviet Union in your struggle
against an autocratic State power, I cannot approve
your cooperation with the Springer-Konzern. I beg
you to reconsider your venture. You are keeping
very bad company.
With friendly greetings,
Yours,
Gunter Grass
Dy~EAR G'NTER GRASS,
? 1J I found it very strange
to read, in your open
letter to Alexander Solz-
henitsyn and myself that
we who will be contributing
to the new journal. Kon
tinent, would be collaborat-
ug with certain dark forces
and with the `power em-
and thereby becoming, if,
tutwittirtgly, accomplices of
Iuscism. . , - -
acgwthrted with the situation. in the West.rI have
no experience at all of the conflicts within
Western democratic societies, . and.. it is not.
really my business to conduct investigations into this -
or that publishing house, or this or that "moneyed -
power", in order to decide whose financial support
may be better or worse.* Your apparent point of
departure is a partisan struggle between various
groups. But our concern. mine and those of my
friends, it simply the magazine, Kontinent, itself
Our venture is, to my mind, a challenging and
promising beginning--a journal which attempts to
bring together a whole group of writers in Eastern
and Western Europe, among them not a few us
Russia whose work is done in the shadow of the.
prisons, camps, and lunatic asylimis.
Trio, our new journal, which wants in a democratic
.spirit to keep strictly above all parties, is now being
helped by the old and traditional Gem= publishing
house of Ullstein-Propylaen-a house which was
destroyed by the Hitler regime.t And it is a pub.
lishiig house which asks nothing of us; there are no
guide-lines, and we shall. write as we please.
Or can it be that you actually believe that we can
be made to dance to somebody's rune? Do you
doubt that it will be the shared ideals of liberty,
generosity, and tolerance which will -shape our
editorial cooperation?
Tn PIcASE "Springer-Ronzern" comes from your
lips in a very malicious tone--not unlike the phrases
about the "Tito-Clique" or "the Fascist de Gaulle"
with which they used to frighten us so long in Russia.
Again, without going into the affairs of the "Kon-
zern, for I know little about them. I would like.
to observe that this "bad company," even if one
were to judge them by the criteria of your letter,
has not killed a single author or sent one poet to a
concentration camp. Your comparison of the activi-
ties of the "Springer Group" with the publishing
conditions of present-day Soviet Russia, with the
ruling state system bent on destroying all dissidents,
ism-forgive me-simply scandalous.
Your point of reference is a pile of opinionated
newspaper clipping which you found unjustifiable.
But our point of reference %s a mountain of corpses,
and among them writers and poets. Can it really be
that you equate a Hitler or a Stalin with a distasteful
polemic in a newspaper?
? Among the publishers of other European editions of
Kontinent are: Gallimard (Paris), Mondadori (Milan).
Andre Deutsch (London).
t' Ullstein-Verlag. a German-Jewish Berlin publishing
house, was liquidated by Goebbels during the Third
Reich. It was returned after the War to the Ullstein
family, who sold it to Springer in 1959.
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1.1 Can it be that you do not know that the whole
prem, . including all publishers of books and maga-
zines, in present-day Soviet Russia is not only under
the. complete financial control of the Central
Committee's Department of Agitation and Propa-
ganda. but wider its total ideological (and physical)
domination, bolstered up by the State- Security-
forces deployed to keep an eye on all the works of
Soviet writers? The free writer in present-day
Russia is put on a par with the cruninal and the
luma c.
Bttr a?Hxtsr An supposed to be "liberalising" days
Yet I am afraid I cannot see the least compari-
soi between an honourable Western publishing
house and the Soviet secret police (and it is the
samtme secret police which controls cultural life in the
Fast European kinds). You once carte to my
personal defence, and I will always remember it with
gratitude. But had you been sentenced for this
personal and individual opinion to seven years in a
work camp (as was the case with Alexander Gins-
burg or with Yuri Galanskov, who died in camp),
then I think you would appreciate a little better the
distinction between publishing in East and West.
The journal Kontinent is an independent publica-
tion, planning a cultural and editorial programme
ofgreat breadth and variety. It is completely beyond
my comprehension why you should feel it necessary
to speak out against a venture which has not even
seen the light of day-to disrupt a magazine whose
first number you have not yet read and whose
quality you presume to judge only by the imprint
of the publishing house.
What would you think of Russian readers of
Western books-from Faulkner to Boll--who
passed judgment. on writers and works without
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having read them, and only on the basis of the
imprint of the Soviet periodical or publisher who
happened to put them our (always, of course, by
permission of the KGB) ? The permission of the
KGB, even when it comes to foreign authors, is
surely stricter than the controls of any Western
publishing house over any of its publications.
I can understand this much: that you think in
other categories, that you concern yourself with who
is behind what and why, and who in secrecy and with
clever financial tactics influences political life.
Back home it used to be referred to as "the claws of
Imperialism". but in the meantime we have ceased
to look at history with the eyes of adetective. We
have gone through the concentration camps, and
money will neither buy us nor b tinddate us.
HERB GRass, why don't you and I talk about books.
about writers and their works-and not about
financial corporations. Not so long ago I was con-
demned because I had not only been published in the
West but evidently also because I received no
Western royalties. According to the logic of my
Russian judges, I. was writing my books not because
1 had sold myself (that would have been from their
point of view more understandable and even forgiv-
able), but far worse---out of private impulse and
hence inner malice.
But I hope, and I share this with my colleagues on
the journal Kontinent, that on one point nothing
will change to the end of our days: that we wrue ho-
cording to our inner convictions.
Respectfully yours,
Andrey Sinyavsky
bul s.j. f
Several of Russih's best-known
recent emigres-for instance
Alexander Galich, Audrey Sin*
yavsky and Vladimir Maximov
-are in London this week
to launch Kontinent, a new
Russian-language journal that
appears for the first time on
October 10. It will be different
from other such journals in two
important respects. The first
number will contain original
contributions from East Euro-
pean writers who are well known
in the Nest, such as Solzhenit-
syn, Sinyavsky, Joseph Brodsky,
Milovan Djilas and Ludek Pach-
man. And it will be aimed not
otily at the Russian emigre
communities, but also at the
Western public and, the editors
hope, at readers inside the
Soviet Uuion.
Our aim is to build up a.
dialogue path the west",. says
Mr. Maximov, the editor-in-chief.
In -the first number he. clearly,-
outlines his journal's principle, he
the main one being
struggle against totalitarianism
o any type- arxis , national-
ist or religious ". But he will
be ready, he says, to consider
for publication contributions or
letters from people who dis-
agree. The dialcgue will be
made possible by the ambitious
and unusual plan of multilingual
publication: The first number,
is already being translated into
German and will be published
in November by Ullstein Verlag,
with ?a printing of, they say,
50,000. Deutsch in England,
Gallimard in France, and Mon-
dadori in Italy also plan to
produce it shortly.
Such s ' journals have iii the
past lost ctedit with some
western liberals through. sus-
picions that they were financed
from secret sources. But this
Vill not be the case with
Kontinent, which is financed
openly-.by Ullstein, part of the
Axel 'Springer group. The
editors hope that all they will
need is initial funding _to, get
them started and that soon they
will be able to survive finan-
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era3Tr cit, their ewwn. - " r- If nu"
Russian edition of .7,000 sells
out, it will cover its costs' , says
Mi Maximov. Kontinent will
then profit from the non-Russian
sales of some of its " goodies
for instance an unpublished
chapter from First Circle by
Solzhenitsyn and a remarkable
essay on the 'Russian literary
scene by Sinyavsky, which will
he offered to the foreign pub-
lishers on a commercial basis.
A. further departure from
emigre publishing is the plan
to print the work of writers still
living in the Soviet Union,
nrenly, with their knowledge
raid consent. ITsuaIly in the past
journals like Possev and Grant
".lave tried to protect their con-
rributori from the Soviet Union
li saving that their work
;)nears ; without their consent.
so,,-iet adherence to the Uni-
-ersal Copyright Convention
n:akts this more difficult, and
anyway the editors of Kontinent
',e!ieve that their ideas are
^rved more by open contribu?
andestine ones.
Those who do send them t err
irk from Russia run a risk, of
course, butt contrary to popular
"elief a soviet citizen does not
commit a\ criminal offence bi?
pi,hushing his work abroad, so
long as the work is not-judged
"anti-Soviet ".
In fact one man "still living
in the Soviet Union, AndreN
Sakharov, is a member of
Kontinent's editorial board. It
a letter welcoming the neN
enterprise he writes: " Tht
reality of these (socialist) coun
tries is a historical phenomenon
that is very badly understood it
the west. Its social, economic
and spiritual qualities cannot bi
grasped from the window of
tourist bus, or from the semi
official Soviet press. Therefor
these people do have something
to tell the world." He ends wit]
the hope that the journal, " wil
be available not only in th
west, but.also to many peopi
in the east". Mr Maximov say
that he already has several cot.
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tributions from Soviet writers,
as well as the promise of more.
For the moment the "star"
of Kontinent is bound to be
Solzhenitsyn. " For 50 years
writers have been crying out
from the Soviet Union. No one
ever listened. Now at last we
have found one man whom the
west will listen to ", says Maxi-
mov. As well as his unpublished
chapter, Solzhenitsyn has con-
tributed a letter to the editors
in which he says that Kontinent
raises new hopes that the Rus.
sian intelligentsia will for the
first time "unite its ideas and
works, ignori both the will of
officialdom and the fact of its
division. by states' frontiers ".
He sees particular hope in the
fact that. bitter experience has
united so many thinking people
in Russia, Poland. Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Ger-
many and the Baltic. Forty
years ago such unity would have
been unimaginable. He hopes
that Kontinent will be able to
express this unity and predicts
imminent woe to the west,
should it, fail to heed the
warning.
The Russian editors- and -con-
tributors will need not only
talent and energy, but also unity
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,12 Septelri,er 1974
achieve their purpose. They
have got the better of two of
their enemies, censorship and
repression, but they will find
others in the west-indifference
to the problems of seemingly
far-away countries and a natural
liberal suspicion of the strong
opinions which conflict and
suffering create.
They believe that they have
something to tell us, and doubt-
less they do. To have worked
out the physical means of trans.
mitting this "message" is in
itself a great administrative
arhiavamn?? u..t Heehaw
ex sting of all is their plan to
pr vide a dint gue, not merely
an warnings, though this is an
im ortant aim, but also to open
th r pages to vestern writers,
in he editor's words " to sup-
po t all democratic institutions
fin their wa , as they un-
do btedl
will
in a R
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,
uss
an-
y
Ian uage journa across the Iron
Cu ain. Kontir. nt would then
all Russia bo h to teach and
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t'KO'N,TDfi11;r"- A European i, gazine to Depict Literature arid Problems of the E
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ast
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- Countries-:-_th `? .'_s . lov, SSakharov and Solzhenitsyn -
The preli.Tli`Ia'-y 1}I e a a --iC:'S for t i~ONTINv ~iTtt, the riagaz2P_e which Lv2s ~ _ :e
sores eek 4 i. 5 a o, 11: Ve reached ti;v of _ ?'Z first volume can be
- v v
presentet-
London in late .Septether. ttil~i~~t?" il't is an at.te zt to create a form for ii.. l'_`
erature of Eastern E'uro e; one r the free conditions of the Ti'~ej V
'E-oices of authors from these ?cct.rntries are heard t.*--censored'. Leading Soviet
a sc e ` -
id authors,
such as Vladimir Aleksai dr Sol:henltsyn, who o01
nly recently
had to leave the Soviet Ur i on; and r d_ ey Sakha:o are included. The r aga..ine
seeks -to coiltinl the liberal tradition of ' i oY iy MLir", once, directed by Ale sa dr I
Tvardovskiy, does scot. intend to be an. anti-Soviet p :7~lication, nor a pub -7-G? do of
'ssian emigres. The ex` pecLations are that so many *texts will Woe out of the oun
tralrs of the East. Bloc itself that there ray be a true picture of the literary
PM-
-ion-and ::Cthe political, social and religious develo=Zlls`. there : The news of the
.founding- of t'i{?:~i C ? :\ltt got aro'_d quickly arion1> authors in the East Bloc
" . The first
lt~ is anTlot-'[_ng tie follo:iir' g contrioLtions: a c ester-previously held %lzhenitsyn' s novel " r t Circ z F held back-from
, l: e F~ s e of r ll;'t ah, essay-- by Audrey Sinya.vrsi;i' on
the situation of l~.te a LTM-e in the Soviet Union; Foe- of Josi-o Brcdsk:-y, the 1 3c.
poet who 'was expelled fro :. the USSR in 19721 and the f rst half of a new novel,
9Yithou-t Hands, Without Feet by Vladimir Ito a u lov, ::To still - lives in MMoscoww. -
The manuscript =.e into the West a few weeks ago. eover, the volume contains a
-rather long inteyriea with \Lilo'~an (sic) Dj ilas.
The editorial site of the magazine, ;hi, ch is at =~-s a ,gearing in RLissian. and
Ge '.an, is Lon-'on and Paris. The Circle of Friends of - =n. Authors decides-jointly
o + the incorpo titioa of the contributions.- The Ullstei--1/~-pyla,,e,,e ' Publishing, ttse
n g -~ ~
in Berlin, which-1s publishing the magazine, intends to carrel all profits to
f.cd for the support of Riissi=i liter tore. 11,`ime r a _
rous Lore-gm pl ~biisli~r: f? z;Ils such
as G-01-lima-rd and MacMillan, - arQ ay the moment negotiating on the rights '
Lo nado al
edi :io:ls. The magazine is to appear quarterly.. Managing editor Vladimir ~~iaksir^ v
is-contributing a foreword for the editorial staff to the first volume
Aleksan -
rote an i troducti.on and Eugen onesco a salutation. he are publishing these three
texts which formulate the high intentions of the international project and the e
re-rations for.it.
VLADnim MAKS324OV: F IRST T T \ HISTORY
The birth of a neon ma azine s ' at 4ti ' i -AA b
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social anAo'fo~~ Fir ? 1978A-
social doubts r:hich .arise during its p anring an o a nQ
?resentva:en t of the forthcoming struggle and responsibility which the initiators o
such a project assume.
One could be tempted to drawn a.parailel with Alexai der Herzen's rragazine
1.0101
has been brought into (the party) Lin., the founding of the magazine '1'DN I'LL 'T"
signifies the first atte. wt of the Russian intelliger_tsia to find a ne,.r forte for its intellectual creation, against t e political rulers' will and across all national
borders. It would of course be best -- and we would be yet o adder at heart - if an
independent Flissian magazine-, its authors and publishing house were located on native
Russian soil; but we -know that under present conditions that is not possible.
And this magazine yet opens up anew perspective: =y; ti.ally it. wrill appear
in Russian and German, but soon. is expected to appear in o ]-mer European languages.
And thus the plight of us scattered throughout the world cages into o-a new hope:
since this magazine is planned as an international organ, .it will also address non--
Russian authors and, xea4ers. Such a develotn.ent would be extraordinary fruitful,
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L Tn n o y's s iety - ar_ r.e as s resu tiny ere-rrom - are g, era?.
ans no.. liriuted to national territories.
Loo'king' r ore closely at the magazine's editorial staff and its plans, ~%C come
across generally "sown and respected- East European names. Voices of East Europ will
thus set the intellectual tone of "}CDNTIMENT". This circc-mstance opens up a still
i or e interesting prospect:. could be a true voice of Easter;^ Europe and.
same' ti e reach p=.. v'_e i n "`;es t Bar opt who do not sh? themselves off fro the
Only "forty years a --,o c_.=sian, Polish,' l ngarian.' Czec . Romanian. Germa?
Liti uanian authors could not -ssibly have the same experiences, drm the same
bitter conclusions and aspire to almost the s?~,:e for the future. This miracle or
which we paid d.early., has core about today. The intelligentsia of Eastern .Europe..
speaks a single language; that of knowing about suffering. We will express our
esteem for the rsaazir_e tTKONT " if it succeeds in effectiv.ely'procuring an
audience for the voice of Eastern Europe.' Woe be Western :rope, if its ears .
"
remain deaf..
The result of our efforts does not infrecuently fall short of .our
hopes and e)q ectations. May it not be so this time.
EUGEX IC::.S CO YCU PEOPLE .ALONE ARE CAP= B E .
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I bid you ~.el come. I feel very honored to be mrmbere'd among your 'colleagues
beside the great Solzhenits -n and others.
In point of .fact, it is very li ,eiy a question of finding a new basis on
hich a more acceptable order of society =y be erected than t
w that which has been.
accc fished to date. 1'e lro;;' all too well that the profit society is damnable
and da n~cd. We also ^ow that the so-called ,'sod all=t" scc? eties are worse that tI e
so-ca.lIcd "liberal" societies. In the n.:re of justice amid liberty,, tyranny, corrupt ion,
b
ar
itrar' ness, injustice, censorship and cruse have seized power. That has bec !e
g -ad?, lly known. &&t the intellectuals of the Western countries, or very mangyY. o t
do not ' :,ant to admit it.
Ili France, a pair of these . intellectuals is "ton the left". The other part
is "on the right" or stands "in the middle". That means that the country finds it-
self virtually in a civil war: ;e are at the mercy of any economic crises - and
everything can, collapse. And yet t e "left tiing" bourgeois can so little iciest
the right.,ri- g bourgeois that they want to settle accounts with them, Come what
ray afterwards - it's 311 - e same to them" dictatorship,. prison, Suppress=ca O
eve:/ freedom, and if necessary, collective annihilation - w o cares? In reali ,
it is clear that every per son detests himself in someone else. . And in' fact, moan
r .
nowadays is not a pleas=at pi-t= e in terns of ethics, and we must mister a lot of
self-control and courage in order not to hate our fellow meri.- .
What. we lack is a new ideology, a non-Ma.-xist left. (such as F anuel Moun i r
and Denis de Rougemenz had in mind and. like the editors of. the review "Esprit" ii L"
around Donenach (sic) still today.) This ideology could be,, based on love or fri rd-
SLUP"Eros" Inc,. not "Thsr2tos". I have had to struggle against. my self -critical,
mi=d in order to use the word. "love".. Speak-Ling of love; friendship, relip on or
:... anism in France means bringing scorn and derision up on-oneself. It is true that
these words are discredited to the extent that it" is longer Imown iwihat they acs J- If.
mean; -that: anyone -Who cares use. them is stamped as a hypocrite.
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If`one no longer srea3c of love thesedays, one does speak all the more of
"jus + ?ce? But what is actually reant by this void is mot justice, but persecution,
z . .
L.
chastisement, the guillotine. As soon as a revoluticn leads to the seizure of power,
. the tribunals --
What o:~ close beiLnd; and that has been a case f cm 1789 up to Stalin.
can we do when everything has failed? To la~;-e ~:_.'ene else as we do
cam- selves, -cculd mean hating him. Is a reversal still possible after we feel so 'cbos*
to the apocalyptic catastrophe?
You - Sol.zh_enitsyn, Bukovskiy, Arcalrik and yoursei , the hundreds of thousands
of 'reroes, hart rs, - indeed, saints - who parish in Soviet camps you are the ones
t+r_o can still do something for this world.
='Te others - I mean those among us who do not shut ourselves off from your
message - who lived in freedom and comfort while you died every ,moment and arose
agan to then die anew - we have neither your. experience or your. authority.
Vil o 1 ows whether in your place we would. not have given into the fear, the
the tet Cation,- to live comfortably and safely in }- . country, in the- mariner .
of those who are. willing to serve -the regime,
Yes, you are the ones. to enlighten us; you alone are able to do it.
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