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- <text id=89TT0938>
- <title>
- Apr. 10, 1989: Publish And Flourish
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Apr. 10, 1989 The New USSR
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 106
- PUBLISH AND FLOURISH
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- <body>
- <p>By Howard G. Chua-Eoan/Reported by Sally B. Donnelly/Moscow
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- <p> For two decades, Anatoli Rybakov turned down offers to
- publish his magnum opus, a novelistic indictment of the Stalin
- era. He did not want it distributed surreptitiously by the
- underground samizdat press or printed abroad. "This novel had
- to be published at home first," he said. "It was needed by my
- country." In 1987, after the advent of glasnost, Rybakov's
- Children of the Arbat was finally released, and the 78-year-old
- author has been reaping accolades ever since. By the end of
- 1989, 5 million copies of the book will have been printed to
- meet public demand. Though the author and his wife Tanya often
- stay at their one-story dacha in Peredelkino, a small writers'
- colony in the woods west of the capital, fans continue to troop
- by. "All this glory distracts me from the job at hand," says
- Rybakov dryly. He is working on the second part of a trilogy set
- in the 1930s. "If a writer ever thinks he has achieved it all,
- he's done for. He should always be moving forward."
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- </article>
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