Volume 14, Number 6 · March 26, 1970
A Somber Theater
By Helen Muchnic
The Love-Girl and the Innocent
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, translated by Nicholas Bethell, translated by David Burg
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 131 pp., $4.95
Five Plays of Alexander Ostrovsky
translated and edited by Eugene K. Bristow
Pegasus, 480 pp., $7.50
The Trilogy of Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
translated by Harold B. Segel
Dutton, 265 pp., $6.95
The Complete Plays of Vladimir Mayakovsky
translated by Guy Daniels
Washington Square Press, 274 pp., $6.95
The Blind Beauty
by Boris Pasternak, translated by Manya Harari, translated by Max Hayward
Harcourt, Brace & World, 128 pp., $3.95
Meyerhold on Theatre
translated and edited by Edward Braun
Hill & Wang, 336 pp., $8.50
Notes of a Director
by Alexander Tairov, translated by William Kuhlke
University of Miami, 153 pp., $6.50
Solzhenitsyn, unquestionably the greatest living Russian writer, is proscribed in his own land. Since One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published by sanction of Khrushchev, his work, except for a few stories that followed immediately, has been smuggled out. This was true of his big novels, The First Circle and The Cancer Ward, and it has now happened to his play, The Love-Girl and the Innocent, which was banned after it had been accepted for staging in 1962. It has been done into English by the able translators of The Cancer Ward.
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