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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 12/12/2004 : 14:56:20
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The totalatarian bastards are working hard to make it so.....
quote:
Foreign dissidents facing U.S. hurdles to publishing
By Scott Martelle
Los Angeles Times
In the summer of 1956, Russian poet Boris Pasternak — a favorite of the recently deceased Joseph Stalin — delivered his epic "Doctor Zhivago" manuscript to a Soviet publishing house, hoping for a warm reception and a fast track to readers who had shared Russia's torturous half-century of revolution and war, oppression and terror.
Instead, Pasternak received one of the all-time classic rejection letters: A 10,000-word missive that stopped just short of accusing him of treason. It was left to foreign publishers to give his smuggled manuscript life, offering the West a peek into the soul of the Cold War enemy, winning Pasternak the 1958 Nobel in literature and providing Hollywood with an epic film.
These days, Pasternak might not have fared so well.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Siberia
SFN Addict
Brazil
2322 Posts |
 Posted - 12/12/2004 : 16:09:42 [Permalink]
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... was the year I was born! 
I haven't read the book yet, though, just the first chapters. |
"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa
"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2004 : 10:01:20 [Permalink]
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Damn it, that pisses me off. There are few things I love to do more than read. The very idea that the United States government is now going to sanction works by foreign authors considered to be dissident goes against what this country is supposed to be about!
And, of course, publishers will not want to take the time, or spend the money to get approval for books they are afraid to advertise.
As soon as I figure out the best place to send my angry letter I'm going to write one.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
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