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Both sides of the ocean

Viktor Nekrasov

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Viktor Nekrasov is a Soviet writer who was permitted by his government to visit the United States and Italy. This book is the frank account of what he saw and heard in the New World and in Italy - recorded in his simple, masterly style, a unique blend of naivety and shrewdness.
When his work was published in the Soviet Union it brought the author much criticism and sharp rebuke from official sources and there was even discussion of expelling him the Communist party.
Nekrasov's controversial writings reveal what he found to admire and what to despise in the strange air of the West. In America, he resents the over-organization of his tours and pokes fun at a Soviet journalist who burns to see the festering slums of the capitalist cities. In Italy, the debates of the 'trattoria' delight him, and he watches the arts and the new cinema with a lively interest.
Filled with anecdotes and pointed with crisp philosophy, here is an invaluable glimpse and an unusual point of view of the West.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1966

Both sides of the ocean

Viktor Nekrasov

0/5 ( ratings)

Viktor Nekrasov is a Soviet writer who was permitted by his government to visit the United States and Italy. This book is the frank account of what he saw and heard in the New World and in Italy - recorded in his simple, masterly style, a unique blend of naivety and shrewdness.
When his work was published in the Soviet Union it brought the author much criticism and sharp rebuke from official sources and there was even discussion of expelling him the Communist party.
Nekrasov's controversial writings reveal what he found to admire and what to despise in the strange air of the West. In America, he resents the over-organization of his tours and pokes fun at a Soviet journalist who burns to see the festering slums of the capitalist cities. In Italy, the debates of the 'trattoria' delight him, and he watches the arts and the new cinema with a lively interest.
Filled with anecdotes and pointed with crisp philosophy, here is an invaluable glimpse and an unusual point of view of the West.

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Release: January 01, 1966

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