Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"I try to show life as it is. If what I write is true, then there will be some social meaning in it. When I write a novel I want to express my view of life. Whether it is the right or wrong view, it apparently contains some ideas and...
Although he knows almost no English, Simonov has read a good deal of American literature in translation. While his reading seems to have centered around the more socially conscious novelists of the twenties and thirties--John Steinbeck, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis--his favorite contemporary author is Ernest Hemingway. "Hemingway writes...
This affinity for Hemingway is also evident throughout Days and Nights. With its terse, ungarnished lines, its relatively simple, folkish characters, and its love story, evolving in the midst of battle, this novel is especially reminiscent of For Whom the Bell Tolls. Yet, beneath the Hemingwayesque prose, characters, and situation...
Simonov then began to describe a film which he felt had been better done, Ballad of a Soldier. As he retold the plot, his hands, which are nearly always active, became powerfully expressive. He would push his fist forward with a twisting motion, suddenly pull a chunk of space toward...
In the U.S.S.R., in addition to doing his own creative work, Simonov is also an active and very important member of the Union of Writers. As literary editor of the Union magazine, Novyi Mir, he was among the first who read and refused to publish Doctor Zhivago. "There were two...