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Thursday, November 20, 1975
University Dally Kansan
U.S. writers popular among Soviet citizens
Every year American writers gain more and more popularity in the Soviet Union, according to Valentin Kotlin, the general secretary of Soviet Writer's United Foreign Commission.
Kotlin talkin to a group of about 30 people yesterday in a speech sponsored by the Department of Information, the department and the English department.
*Proof of the popularity*, Kotlin said, is the translations of American works not only because they are many other languages of the Soviet people.
Kokin said yesterday that the works of American authors in Russia weren't intended for the elite, but for the mass audience.
"Thenormal circulation of a novel, which is 50 to 100 thousand," Kokkin said, "cannot satisfy the demand of the book boom now taking place in our country."
ACCORDING TO KOTKIN, James Penmore Cooper was the first American captain in World War II.
Russian translations of his novels appeared as early as the 1830s and quickly won for him love among his readers, Kotkin said.
KU benefactor, Hashinger, dies
Mrs. Edward H. Hashingh, one of the University of Kansas' most generous supporters, died of a stroke yesterday in Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. Hassinger, formerly Mrs. Jesse Battenfield, of La Jolla, Calif., was visiting friends when she suffered the stroke. She died at 6:30 a.m. in St. Lake's Hospital.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Country Club Christian Church in Kansas City, Burial will be in the Mt. Cemetery. There will be no volleyon.
A scholarship fund was started by Mrs. Hashinger and her first husband in memory of their son, John, more than 35 years ago. The fund has grown and provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans to students, according to Irvin Youngberg, former executive secretary of the KU Endowment Association.
Battetten Scholarship Hall, 1423 Alumni Place, was another donation to the University by Mr. and Mrs. Battenfeld in memory of their late son.
The main auditorium at the KU Medical
Institute, where he is another of her
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Mrs. Hashinger recently donated $50,000 to the Kansas School of Religion and Hashinger Residence Hall on Daisy Hill is named in her honor.
Kokin said that in the 1850s and 1860s, he
Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabinet"
beaches.
"The reception of this book in Russia is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of Russo-American cultural and literary relations." Kotkin said.
As far as the American abolitionist writers are concerned, Kolkin said they were "discovered" by Mr. Garnett.
KOTKIN SAID THAT in the late 1800s and 1890s the name of Tolstoy gained fame through the world. Literary figures of Tolstoy include such as the senior figure in world literature.
In the United States, Tolstoy's works became well-known through the efforts of William Dean Howe, Kotkin said. Tolstoy, he said, also influenced the literary activity of Theodore Dreiser, Upon Sihin Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe.
A new stage of study of American history after the 1917 revolution in Russia, Koehn said.
"According to the numbers of books and editions in the 1920s," Kotkin said, "American authors occupy first place among foreign writers published in our country."
KOAN SAID WALT Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and John Reed had all been popular in the Soviet Union. Jack London, he said, remains one of Russia's famous writers.
Kotkin said that at the beginning of the 1930s the standard of translation of American literature was raised quite a bit. A group of outstanding translators were invited to attend, he said.
"Thanks to their creative and devoted work, remarkable translations of such masters of prose as Hemingway, Erskine Caldwell, John Steinbeck, John Dos Passos, Sinclair Lewis and others appeared in the 1890s." Kotkin said.
KOTKIN SAID, "AS you may have noticed from my account here, writers of a clear realistic or a satirical style, such as Cooper, Mark Twain, Jack London, Dreiser, and others have long enjoyed a special popularity in the Soviet Union.
"The criticism of the American life style in some of their works is by no means a reason for their popularity," Kotkin said. "It does not." He very closely to classical Russian literature.
Practically all of the now thriving American writers are well known in the Soviet Union, Kotkin said. John Update, a friend and Norman Maller are popular now.
recorded to Kotlin, American poetry,
pics and work by black writers receive
recognition.
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