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ROBERT - PITMAN tells the
story behind the
novel that
caught the moment
of truth in Russia
THIRSTILY the prosperous industrialist sipped at the cocoa in his big enamel mug. Sitting on benches round the kitchen table his family sipped cocoa too. In front of them lay thefr breakfast. Bread and chips.
But the family was not alone. There was a guest - man who had come specially to see the huge factory the combine which the industrialist ran.. As soon as guest finished, a cry rang out: "Drink! Refresh yourself!” Generously the industrialist picked up the saucepan and poured more cocoa into the man's empty mug.
Who is this extraordinary host? An eccentric millionaire? A frugal Yorkshire factory- owner who has worked his way up from the back streets?
Normal meal
Peter
No. His name Galitski, Doctor of Science. His factory is in Ruzain, in the Urals And his strange family breakfast is described-not as a The freak of eccentricity but as sort of meal we ought to expect in the homo of successfut factory boss-in the sensational. Russian novel NOT BY BREAD ALONE, by Vladimir Dudintsev (now published in English by Hutchinson, 188.)..
Dudinieer's novel does some thing which is utterly new. It tells the truth about ordinary, Russian life.
Martin
The cry rang out: "Drink / Refresh'yourself" ... at breakfast,
Then the lavish host
poured
out
more cocoa
travellers with dubious visiona · of a golden oge behind the iron Curtain.
Why?
peel. Why? Says Dudintsev: "No one had seen anything like .orange peel in this steppe
region..."
Now follow Drozdov and his young bride to their home.
Dudintsev remembered how he had always read that Russia had the best planes in the world. He determined to expose officials who told such lies."
original issues of the literary magazine.
Then the Russian attitude changed.
An epilogue
Their officials arranged for Dudintsev to add an epilogue to the British edition. They even Where is Dudintsev today? spoke of him coming to Britain When his novel was omelally, to launch it. Hutchinsons
At the door they are met by denounced the Russians tried to promptly sent off an Invitation Hutchinsons publishing to him. But nothing has been their servant, a sturdy peasant slop
giri. She 1ooles at Nadia, in Britain. But Hutchinsons had a heard from him. In Moscow no Drozdov's
wife. She cries! contract "Oh, my, a new fur coat! How soft it is!"
Say's Drozdov impressively; "It's a foreign fur. They call # mink. It cost 22,000 roubles." The novel told the curious story of Lopatkin, a gaunt but But mink is not the only good-looking idealist, a school- thing that distinguishes the Or they have had the master who throws up his job Drozdova. grumbles of visiting business to become an inventor, The What an event that is. Until men-with details of plugicas machine which Lopatkin invents now British readers who wanted wash-basins in the
the truth have been faced with hotels. an awkward cholce.
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**Did you just learn about
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The Thaw
Moscow
The Poor
I turned down by the officials in favour of something far inferior.
their produced by
Nadia is expecting her first baby. But she still goes on with her job as geography the Russians to teacher at the local school
cronies.
Why were
As for the experts on Russia, excited by Lopatkin's story? It until one day she falls ill In they usually return with fresh was not merely because of the the common room. In hospital,
In sears in ovidence for their own views theme of injustice,
word by herself, she Russian earlier
novels notices an old woman cleaner on the mysteries of Kremlin of
callous officials had played the polities.
part of villain. But in these looking in the bedside cupboard.
She explains that she is look~! Then why can we trust Not novels, the villains had always ing for a comb that one of the by Bread Alone?
been unmasked and punished, In Not by Bread Alone they other patients left behind. Nadia is puzzled. Where are the other Well, note
still running Lopatkin's
Sayatha old, woman: patients? received in Russia just. a year Ministry when the novel ends, erho women were all put out ago.
Into the passage, The ward had to be cleared for you." *. What else does Dudintsev's
novel toll ?
how
Jt
Seven months earlier in
was are
vust white and gold hall ip, the
Kremlin polaco had occurred
one of the most fantastic scetics
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The Truth
Everywhere in Russia when
7
We learn about the houses of Nadia visite Пanked
a pupil in agirect
In Rusala since the Revolution. Not by Bread Alone appeared the very poOT. White comrades wept or the reaction of rendery and alumped in their plush seats critics was "The truth at last!" by small clay houses or "earth- with shock, Nikita Krushchev, The,iruth, Today Dudiniscy's huts." The pupii's family lives Úvo-bour speech, novel has been officially in one of the buts. It is hell÷ ̈ denounced the tyranny of his denounced in Russia But In; buried in the earth. It is enter- tho old master, Stalin.
Britain the truth he told koepe od through a door under
hay-rick. In the front room Illa fascination. In Rumia, the thaw had a p
there are towa being milkød. begun. Trickles, of from speech Let us glance at his opening In the back room the family la and criticism, started (lo) flow, scendi dan ma
| Ir. the middle of the thaw ORINO)
meal-hot potatoes Salt for the potatoos is spread on a newspapers
eating its evening
Dudintsev's Not by Bread Drozdov, factory boss of one
of the new towns in the far What, of Dudinterp› Himani)? "Alona. Na poMSAN S
Sedged steppelande, has Jusb, sutused He first determined to write his
- 16 came first of all, az-a serial from Moscow. Ho peels, an; novel when lying in a front-line in the drab pages of a Soviet misuse as he struta importantly: trench during the Wands Overy literary magazine. By the third through the mow, Immediately bead a few desserschmitta were Instalment excllod micelings children rus trum även não teilly shooting down the Russlan were being held all over: Funda, to piçi - the bright-dojou
and they had the one will say where he is.
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