Word: ehrenburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview with the famous writer has been developed almost into a literary form by Paris Review. In recent issues Frederick Seidel draws Robert Lowell into revealing angular lights in his prismatic mind, and Olga Carlisle lets Ilya Ehrenburg reveal his rich store of platitude. In Contact the bitterly brilliant Philip O'Connor presents a series of capsule interviews with aging writers of the British Establishment, "gentlemen in and out of letters," ranging from Bertrand Russell to Poet-Essayist Herbert Read. And in Evergreen Robert Stromberg shows another side of the late maligned (and malignable) Louis-Ferdinand Céline...
...helped get the project started: Jewish Novelist Ilya (Out of Chaos] Ehrenburg, another man with a decided talent for landing on his feet. Although Stalin liquidated nearly every member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Ehrenburg was spared; it was even rumored that he personally fingered fellow members as Zionists...
Taking advantage of a Radio Moscow broadcast in honor of his 70th birthday, Russian Author Ilya Ehrenburg aimed an oblique swipe at his government's persistent but unadmitted discrimination against Jews. Said Ehrenburg: "I am proud of the fact that I am an ordinary Russian writer. But my passport [for travel inside Russia] states that I am not a Russian but a Jew. As long as even one anti-Semite exists in the world, I shall proudly reply to any question as to my nationality...
...very well known, but he is known as a translator of Shakespeare's plays. His writing as such is generally considered second-rate. Most students here haven't read or, often, even heard of most of our first rate modern writers, people like Vera Panova, Galina Nicholayeva or Ilya Ehrenburg...
Religious Black Market. In their speculative notes on the unknown author, the editors of Encounter compare "Abram Tertz'' with Ilya Ehrenburg-in-exile, the scoffer who could write The Stormy Life of Lasik Roitschwantz (TIME, Aug. 22) before he turned party hack. It would not be the oddest thing about this strange and wonderful book if it turned out that Ehrenburg was in fact "Abram Tertz." Perhaps only the "psychoscope," a plug-in device invented by the secret policemen Tolya and Vitya to trace the private thoughts of citizens, will ever know the truth...