Thursday, October 27, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Past trials inspire Russian writer
Rv CATHY RISCH
Staff Writer
During his stay at the University of Kansas, Yuri V. Trifonov will be doing his part to bridge the culture gap between Americans and Russians.
Trifonov, a prominent Soviet writer, is visiting KU for three weeks as part of a Russian writer-in-residence program sponsored by the department of Slavic languages and literatures. There they serve three years at University part of the program, Trifonov is conducting a series of seminars and discussions on modern Russian literature.
Speaking through an interpreter, Trifonov said yesterday that he hoped this exchange program would help to broaden interest in modern Soviet literature.
"Most Americans do not know or have never heard of some of our very popular writers," he said. "There is a certain lack of understanding among most Americans. I think it is something
characteristic of Americans in that they are lacking in interest in other cultures."
TRIFONOV SAID that American literature was very well known and liked in Russia and that such authors as Hermann Plaubner and Wilder were popular.
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Campus vets to upgrade discharges
The University of Kansas Campus Veterans now have the authority to help veterans in Kansas upgrade dishonorable military discharges.
Trifano, who has had his stories published in major Soviet magazines, will have three of his more popular stories — "The Long Goodbye," "Taking Stock" and "The Exchange" — published in English and distributed in the United States.
Campus Vets applied and are listed on the National Registry for Upgrading Discharges, because it was discovered that some KU veterans with dishonorable discharges had been denied local employment and certain educational benefits that are given to veterans. Don Wenzel, vice president of the Campus Veterans, said recently.
So far, about five veterans have called to ask questions about changing their dishonorable discharges. Wentz said he was preparing briefs on two veterans to discover whether their discharge standings could be changed.
According to Wentz, a discharge for the goal of the service means that "you want to be a leader."
Some dishonorable discharges can be lifted if they were received for bad conduct, or unadaptability or for the good of the service. Wentz said.
"From the time a wet walk in, it will take an average of four months before we can go before a review board to represent him," he said.
He said he also hoped to see a more recent work, "The House on the Embankment," translated and put into print. It is the story of a student living in an apartment house on the bank of the Moscow River who allows the political police to manipulate him into denouncing his prospective father-in-law and mentor.
"I do not like to discuss the intention of my works," he said. "In order for the reader to understand, he must make a personal effort to read the book and decide for himself."
First, he said, a personal history record of the veteran is completed and his military records are sent for. Then the two records are reviewed together, in a case to take a discharge review board.
Wentz said that even though the service was free and available to any Kansas veteran, it was sometimes hard for veterans to come in and ask for help. It is a problem for a vettern to tell his private life to a stranger, he said.
TRIFONOV'S experiences as a youth also influenced his works. His father was a Bolshevik revolutionary who fought in the civil war and was imprisoned and later executed in 1837 during the Stalin regime. He was a student of the Gorky Library Institute and later attended the Gorky Literary Institute. In 1951, at the age of 26, he won a state prize for literature.
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Although he writes critically of some aspects of society, Trifonov said he was not aware of the evidence.
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There are differences between modern Russian and American literature, he said.
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Trifonov said that such dissidents as Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Andrei Sakharov were condemned in Russia for political rather than literary reasons.
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TRIFONOV SAID that the Soviet public was not able to read the most recent popular American fiction because of the time it took to learn a great amount of literature that comes in.
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All books have to be approved by the government before they can be published in the Soviet Union, he said. Some books are rejected or censored because of the contents; others because they are poorly written, he said.
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