University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1962 Page 13 Soviet literature depicts lives, says prof By VERONICA JONGENELEN Staff Reporter A close reading of Soviet literature offers a more accurate view of Soviet affairs all the newspaper reports and television programs, neither a, in Soviet professor said last month. The professor, Aleksandr Ovcharenko, spoke through an interpreter at the *professor of Slavic languages and literature* Ovcharenko lectures about 15 people in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. His visit marked the resumption after three years of the KU Soviet writer-in-residence program. Mikkelsen said. The hiatus resulted from a weak Afghanistan strain in South Korea. OVCHARENOK, deputy director of the Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow, discussed several themes in Soviet literature, including World War II, and rural writing, a type of literature based on everyday people, he said. It is not particularly difficult to interest the reader in an outstanding person, he said, but it is much more likely to write about a simple old woman. He gave the example of a dying woman who lived with the most unfortunate of her sons. All of her children had been taken to wait for her death. When the latter came to wait for her death. When she did not die, the children left. The woman then went to the door to look for her daughter and died, he said. THE STORY WAS written in such a way that millions of readers around the world identified and sympathized with the mother, he said. Ovcharenko also talked about the recurring theme in Soviet literature of World War II. Of every 190 people born between 1921 and 1934, 97 did not live through the war, he said. Those who survived did not want their children to witness the same scenes of carnage they did, he said, and that is why the war is continuously brought up in Soviet literature. flames," he said. "We saw cities burning." "We saw people consumed by "The tension was so great that suddenly they were overcome by sleep," he said. OVCHARENKO ALSO talked about a book about survivors of attempted executions. One thing first surprised him was that he had no sleep just before they were to be shot. Ovcharenko began his lecture with a story about his first experience with Yukagir literature. The Yukagir are units of a peninsula near Alaska, he said. Ten years ago, Ovcharenko said, his group of literary critics received a few of them in a language none of them knew. Once, he noticed, it was translated into Russian. Commission continues development discussion The Lawrence City Commission 'Monday discussed possible action on development south of 24th Street and west of 17th Street, the area known as Nisatshi-West. The city commission, which met in a study session at City Hall, decided to again recommend zoning change at its Nov. 9 meeting. Ed Collister, attorney for Al Moore, the man who wants to develop Naismith-West, said the city commission had not been willing to discuss ways of developing the area. "The problem has been that we have one side that's talking and one side that's quiet, and you're the side that does," she said to the commissioners Monday. Collier said the city commission should make a decision quickly on the zoning question and other questions related with possible development. have been raised include development in a flood plain area, drainage from development in Naitsmith-West onto increased traffic because of development. Some of the other questions that Property owners in the area have protested the proposed development and have said that streets in the area would not be adequate to handle sion in early June deferred action on the zoning change, which would zone the property from a higher density to a lower density rating. Collister and several city commissioners said after the meeting that the two parties were closer to reaching an agreement. Mayor Marei Francisco said the commission should make a decision on the zoning change. The commis- Collisier, however, said he did not expect the question of development in Naismith-West to be resolved at the Nov. 9 commission meeting. On campus CATHOLIC CENTER WORSHIP will be at 12:30 p.m. in Danforth Chanel. DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS CLUB will have a games meeting at 7 p.m. in the club room. TODAY NON-TRAITIONAL STUDENT AT OU- SION 1 p.m. in Room 702 of the Union STUDENT SENATE will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the COLLQQUIUM, "Round Table: Cross-disciplinary Approach to Adult Development," will be at noon in Alcove D in the Union. KU COLLEGE REPUBLICANS will p.m. in the Jawahra Dowk of the Union EXECUTIVE LECTURE, Robert T. 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