Books Briefly
BOOKS Words as Weapons THE WRITER AND HUMAN RIGHTS edited by the Toronto Arts Group for Human Rights Anchor Press/Doubleday. 294 pp. $17.95. In October 1981, some seventy writers from many...
...Jacobo Tim-erman, the Argentine journalist, and among the Americans, Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag, and Carolyn Forche...
...Rovere's detachment is evident in Final Reports, a collection of reflections on his personal life and politics, and his writing is without passion except when he expresses his deep concerns about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the Vietnam war...
...Hans Magnus Enzens-berger, the West German poet...
...The individual text entries (25,000 of them) incorporate cross references to related information elsewhere in the volume...
...Participants included such notables as Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist...
...He reminisces about his campaign trips in 1948 with Truman and Thomas Dewey and his journeys to Africa, Germany, the New Mexico mountains, and Key West...
...New double-page color spreads explain advanced concepts in technology, including microelectronic devices, computers, robots, space vehicles, and modern communications systems...
...Schlesinger and Rovere were co-authors of The General and the President...
...This book contains some of the papers presented at the congress, excerpts from the discussions, and samples of the works of seven silenced writers from Argentina, Egypt, Czechoslovakia, South Africa, Chile, the Soviet Union, and Taiwan...
...Ronald Hingley, lecturer at Oxford and author of works on Russian writers, engagingly portrays the contradictory personality of poet and novelist Boris Pasternak in this thorough, critical, and compassionate biography...
...There is ample evidence here for the thesis that writers and those in power must, sooner or later, come to confrontation and conflict...
...Although most associates critical of Stalin's regime were persecuted, exiled, or killed (even Pasternak's mistress was imprisoned for associating with him), Pasternak remained free but was watched...
...Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to aid the work of Amnesty International...
...Josef Skvo-recky, the Czech filmmaker...
...A valuable, all-around reference work...
...notes Rovere's "quirky independence of mind" and observes that Rovere "was always deeply interested in public events, yet managed to stand coolly apart from them...
...at twenty-four he worked for New Masses, followed by stints at Common Sense and The Nation...
...How Pasternak managed to consider himself a Christian without denying his Jewish heritage, a supporter of the Revolution without denying his Christianity, and a critic of the Revolution without being exiled are questions Hingley explores sensitively and with scrupulous scholarship...
...It is a visual treasure house, with 13,500 illustrations, many in color...
...Cool Ruminations FINAL REPORTS by Richard Rovere Foreword by Arthur Schlesinger Jr...
...The Writer and Human Rights is a mixed bag—painful portraits of persecution, censorship, and repression...
...16.95...
...An observant and reflective journalist, Rovere presents concise portraits of New Yorker editors Harold Ross and William Shawn and telling vignettes of Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy, Senators Robert Taft and Arthur Vandenberg, Ad-lai Stevenson, and Walter Lippmann...
...In October 1981, some seventy writers from many nations gathered in Toronto for a congress called "The Writer and Human Rights...
...His personal politics zigzagged...
...A world atlas in color contains Rand McNally maps...
...The 1977 edition of the one-volume Random House Encyclopedia has now been revised, updated, and enlarged...
...After Stalin's death, the publication of Dr...
...polemical attempts to define rights and responsibilities...
...Among the latter was Hingley, who met Pasternak when he was ailing in body and spirit...
...In 1944 Richard Rovere joined the staff of The New Yorker and from December 1948 Books Briefly until his death in 1979 he wrote a regular report, "Letter from Washington...
...2,918 pp...
...Paradoxical Pasternak PASTERNAK: A BIOGRAPHY by Ronald Hingley Alfred A. Knopf...
...Then exposure to Tolstoy and the poets Rainer Maria Rilke and Aleksandr Blok led him increasingly to poetry, which became his artistic metier through the postrevolutionary period...
...Treasure House THE RANDOM HOUSE ENCYCLOPEDIA edited by James Mitchell and Jess Stein Random House...
...303 pp...
...Less than two years after renouncing the Nobel Prize, Pasternak died...
...Zhivago outside the Soviet Union brought him, in addition to the 1958 Nobel Prize for literature, increased hounding by both Soviet authorities and foreign visitors...
...Growing up in an artistic household before the Russian Revolution, Pasternak wanted to be a musician...
...The paradoxes of Pasternak's life eventually led him to write Dr...
...99.95...
...In his foreword Arthur Schlesinger Jr...
...His funeral, despite official disapproval, was attended by thousands, including the grieving author of this excellent biography...
...lyrical passages of prose and poetry in praise of freedom...
...Zhivago, a semi-autobiographical novel about a doctor who was at odds with political ideologies and torn between mistress and wife...
...230 pp...
...Cool ruminations about recent history...
Vol. 48 • May 1984 • No. 5
