![]() ![]() Andrey Platonov, for example, has only very slowly gained Western recognition. Great writers with less dramatic biographies have often gone unnoticed. Alexander Solzhenitsyn became ever more famous as the authorities stepped up the pressure against him and eventually deported him in 1974. Joseph Brodsky became known after being tried in court and then sent into exile in the Far North. ![]() ![]() Doctor Zhivago became a best seller because the Soviet authorities coerced Boris Pasternak into declining the Nobel Prize. It has been hard for a Soviet writer to attract widespread attention in the English-speaking world except through some major international scandal. WESTERN READERS HAVE LONG TENDED to divide Soviet writers into two classes: corrupt time-servers and heroic, dissident martyrs. ![]()
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