SOVIET DISOWNS AN EROTIC NOVEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200830033-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: February 6, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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? SOVIET DISOWNS Authentic, Says Publisher
Maurice Girodias, president
of Olympia Press, said in New
AN EROTIC NOVEL-heard ork that he had never before
of Heinz Konsalik and
insisted that "Moscow Nights"
was written by "a Soviet citi-.
Magazine Says Book. May zen now living in Russia."
Be a German Forgery The novel, he said, will be
published next month in its'
--- original Russian by Olympia
Speotal to The New York Times Press, Tel Aviv, one of the 10,
MOSCOW, Feb. 5-A Soviet international companies spe-
jested cializing in pornographic works
literary weekly has, suggested that Mr. Girodias has founded
that a pornographic book wide- in recent years. A Hebrew edi
ly- advertised in the United tion will be issued simultane-
States as "the first modern ously.
erotic novel from the Soviet The publisher said he was
underground" might be a West surprised at the suggestion of
Literaturnaya Gazeta that the
German forgery novel was written by a West
In one of the first comments German since previous Soviet
In the controlled Soviet press attacks had never questioned
on the novel "Moscow Nights," the manuscript's authenticity.
the weekly Literaturnaya Ga- 1 A review released by the. Mos-
zeta said it had received a let- cow Press agency Novosti after
the Italian edition of "Moscow
ter from a West German Nights" appeared last August
reader of the book attributing said: "it is plain that the author
It to Heinz Konsalik, a German of this book is a deeply amoral
writer. person, who hates his 'People
"As a matter of fact," the and the land which nourishes
weekly went on, "even a cur-
sory examination of this porno,
opus seems to indicate that,
this is a likely assumption."
"Moscow Nights," published
by Olympia Press and sched-
uled to be made into a motion
picture, is attributed to a So-
viet underground writer who
uses the pseudonym Vlas Tenin.
The newspaper said that
there appeared to be similari-
ties in style and' content be-
tween "Moscow Nights" and a
book by Mr. Konsalik titled
"Love Nights in the Taiga."
The taiga is the name given to
the forest of northern Russia
and Siberia.
it was the second time that)
the Soviet weekly sought to ;
disavow any connection be-1
tween the Soviet Union and a
pornographic work abroad.
Last' month it tried to show
that a comic strip called
"Oktyabrina," published in Lon-
don, was a forgery.
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