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21 Huston Standard-Spikar. Thursjiy. Hit 11, 1SS2 oviets hunger for American books C2 side the Soviet bloc. It carries the works in serialized form and translated anto Russian. "I wouldn't say we are too concerned with ideology.

But we donl lake books which are too violent or racist." Also barred from publication, she. said, are works which are overtly "anti-Soviet" or too sexually explicit. The magazine passed over "The Confessions of Nat Turner" by William Styron because, she claimed, the book from the United States and other nations. Miss Kudriavtseva maintained that the magazine bases its selection on reader interest rather than folio mg the line of the Soviet Communist Party or government. Books differing markedly from the official Kremlin political line, however, are not readily available to the average Soviet reader.

And Soviets frequently complain that they are unable to find either Russian classics or important works from the est. Moscow largest bookstore, Dom Kmgi (House of Books), offers wide selection of technical manuals and works by Communist Party officials. Fiction and non-fiction from the West show up less frequently, and sell out quickly when they do. Foreign Literature magazine offers a relatively limited Soviet audience a screened sampling of important, interesting and acceptable works from out By BRYAN BRUMLEY MOSCOW (AP) Isolated from the United States by politics, geography, ideology and life style. Soviet readers nonetheless gobble up contemporary American literature when they can find it "We publish practically every big name," said Tatyana Kudriavtseva.

a member of the editorial board of the monthly magaziner Foreign Literature, which carries a wide range of authors ujpee ltoee America's Best Selling Work Clothes! Mark Twain 404 times, English novelist Charles Dickens 270 times, Rudyard Kipling 249 and American Theodore Dreiser 228 times, the committee announced. One of the most popular American novels published by Foreign Literature magazine. Miss Kudriavtseva said, was Arthur Haley's thriller "Airport," which she chartertzed "not as high literature." "Airport" was well received, she added, because "it showed examples of the American people at work, their attitude toward solving problems, or not being able to solve them." Soviet readers consider American literature richer than that of other countries because it is "very diversified," she said. "There are active genres of war novels, detective stories, political novels, historical novels, science fiction, and others." "We get a lot of letters, both for and against certain works," she said. "As soon as we publish something unusually explicit, we immediately get letters complaining, 'Why do you use such filthy "I think this is due not only to our tradition" against sexual frankness in Russian literature, she said.

"It is because we are still a peasant country. Most of our intellectuals are first generation intellectuals; they come mostly from peasant backgrounds." The editors of Foreign Literature try, not always successfully, to delete sexually explicit scenes from books they want to publish. John Updike's "Marry Me" was passed over because "it contained many references to sex, and removing them would have mutilated the book," Miss Kudriavtseva said. "Falconer" by John Cheever was not published because it involved too much homosexuality, which is illegal here," she said. But values in the Soviet Union are shifting, she said, "changing under the impact of industrialization and Western ideas." "The Whistle" by James Jones was carried posthumously by the magazine.

"There is a lot of blood, sweat, sex and dirty language, much of which we kept," she said. "This could not have happened 10 years ago." about a rebellious black slave in the U.S. South "sought to show that any type of rebellion is doomed." But it published Styron's "Sophie's Choice," which was warmly received because it rejected fascism. Miss Kudriavtseva said by way of example. Of the writers carried in Foreign Literature, she added in an interview, "Americans are the most popular, because of the high interest in your country.

The shift of interest to U.S. books, films and plays came after World War II, when we moved away from French influence" which had swayed Russian literature from the late 18th century. Foreign Literature claims 2 million readers, and a circulation of about 470,000, down 50,000 since the price was increased from 9.60 rubles ($13.44) to 21.80 rubles ($30.52) annually at the beginning of the year. "Most of our readers are intellectuals, students, scientists, mathematicians and journalists," Miss Kudriavtseva said. Other Soviet government publishers issue American literature in Russian translation, including the newly created Rainbow Publishers.

"For us, American literature is alive and kicking," said Rainbow's Giorgi Anjaparidze. Two years ago, Rainbow began issuing a series of 45 volumes by U.S. authors, ranging from William Bradford and Benjamin Franklin to Joseph Heller, Joyce Carol Oates and Kurt Vonnegut. It also includes works by Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, the American writers that critics say have most influenced Soviet authors. Anjaparidze says the planned 50,000 copies of each of the volumes will not satisfy demand.

Although it is not the first time in Russian print for most of the U.S. authors, Anjaparidze said, the United States is the first nation treated in a special series. "It was a natural choice, because American literature is very popular with us," he said. Judging from statistics released last year by the Soviet state publishing committee, Jack London is the most popular U.S. author in the Soviet Union, where he is known for his socialist leanings rather than his stories.

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