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MEMOIRS: 1921-1941 by Ilya Ehrenburg. 543 pages. World...
...Illinois. His science fiction, however, has drawn him into a world he never dreamed of entering. Ingmar Bergman corresponds with him. Fran?ois Truffaut is writing the scenario for the movie version of his novel Fahrenheit 451. Christopher Isherwood has compared Bradbury to Edgar Allan Poe. And Ilya Ehrenburg says that he is one of the five most popular American writers in the Soviet Union, along with Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Spillane...
...come as much of a surprise, since Yevtushenko's writing, which is often critical of the Soviet Union, has recently brought condemnation from Soviet political leaders. At a meeting with artists and writers last month, Premier Nikita Khrushchev singled out the 29-year-old poet and novelist Ilya Ehrenburg for severe censure...
Abram Tertz is the pseudonym of a Soviet writer so knowledgeable about Communist literary politics that some have thought he might be Ilya Ehrenburg, the protean figure in Soviet literature who has survived all changes and has written well as revolutionary, emigre, Stalinist, and satirist. Whatever his name, and however his manuscripts are gotten out of Russia (via what the publishers call an intellectual underground), he writes fictional parables that illuminate the reality of Soviet life by the light of fantasy...
Since the trip was scheduled, however, Yevtushenko's criticism of Russian society has drawn increasingly violent condemnation from the Soviet political leadership. At a March 3 meeting with artists and writers Premier Khrushchev singled out Yevtushenko and novelist Ilya Ehrenburg for severe censure...