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Show r 2 The Salt Lnle Tribune, Sunday, July 27, , 09 kiV Shelle y For what shall I begin Richard Holmes' liai-in- g huge Me ol the poet Pens By For setting the Shelley ord straight at last, a bird This is down hooting -- neuT wort'" bunk's impoitance Holmes nukes dear, rec1 -- ir varioti- - to do so ria-o- declined ns I Victim of limes Had Shelle 's political t, dements been published Ins major poetr might have -- Irecoine known in his li'etone i or exanmle. Holmes spec u iates that if The Mask ol which he proVnauh nounces ' The gieatest poem of political protest ever had liec n id itten in Engh-li.- " published in 1819 instead of m 1812. the publicity might have led to a Covent Gaiden pio diktion of Shellev s melodramatic The (em i ",a- - well - the release ol two motor poems that weie then in the hands ol hi- - publisher, .lull, m and M nldelo ' and Iromeiheus Unbound ' Hemained Mist lire Had SI.rihv - iiia i piRtp become known, he might have escaped in and bet n celebrated tor what he really wa- a ofes-nmwriter Who pi know- - t,e mi Jit even have lived beyond the age ot ,o instead of drowning in an tv a! r whiih we accident that might easd.v tie intcipr ted a- - uu ldc Rut none of this came to re Instead, Shelle pas- - hi- -- niaincd obscure and lifetime, shade' in died in a startli- to the oontem-pdar- - live,- tu a- - a and, despite oiiginx, grew genuine! egalitarian in a time and place of ion-ciit've reaction The maim (oik ern ol both his jiolitu al amt esthetic theories A Defence of (of which tuallv the least .a is loetiy part) Wa- - to work out how best to foiwaid human freeutmo-pliedom in a iepre--iv- e He glimp-e- d the Iheory of surplus value and the tlieiiafion ol the laborer Indore Marx and Engels He -an ideal ought to his v, the His was posthumous reputation snaped b fanul memliers ashamed ot his hsreputabiU ti scholars .n thrall to .etmian piopiieties, and bv New Critics preoccupied v ith the image c lu-- ti fs in " I'o a Skvlaik net ol lv llcv as he painter and army corporal, published 50 years ago. proved the herald of the cosmic tragedy that m turn would generate much of the t, it t. ft V! i i g kir Adolf Hitler Few Bothered Tj Read if Nothin story," by Alexander Dol-gu- with Patrick Watson; lfred V Knopf & Co . 370 PP , $1. You can read "Alexander Dolgun's Story as a testimonial to personal courage a political document or as an a-- example the extraordinary adaptability of a nun determined to survive I found the last approach the most up pealing Ingenuity under pressure - to my mind, the most leassunng or inspiring of all human qualities There is a kind of desperate wit m the of twists and turns of imagination an threatened irony so close to the bone that it seems to be a part of our natural condition U S File ( lerk Alexander an Doigun. citizen, was a 22 file rick in the I S year-olembus-- v in Moscow m to is he was walking along the Ireot. he was seized and forced into a car by three members of the Soviet secret pohee While he wa- - held incommunicado, the omh.is American d -- what had happened and fihd a tornul note of prote-- t which -- y The cold war wa- - the n at point and Doigun to the exicc m u - of international tension Li is months of brutal interrogation. DoLtin never what he was ae "If Nothin' Dont Happen," by David M. Newell; Alfred Knopf Co A . 242 pp., 7.95. the last page of "If Nothin' Don't Happen," Bdiy I 'rigger- - the chaiacter who tells the story, says 'This here been a long drawn-ou- t and I reckon I've done told a lot of things that didn t need to tie told and maybe some tnings that On stulent-- m.iiKe inspired pertor 1 Homy cutting -- i- of the Rt volution, which he Pursuit" redeems Christopher Lehmann-ifaupNew York Times 'CnpVIlJl' himself recognized as the in,. -- ter theme ot the epoch m of He had been friendly w ith v anous officials of his own rank He had been seen Itorrowing a car from the emba-s- y pool - a sure sign, in Soviet eyes, that he was not I he minor clerk he claimed to lie He was observed, through field glasses, practicing with an air in hi apartment which was interpreted as "tc rrorist training " cu-e- d pi-t- ol Prevented From Sleeping In the year and a half of his interrogation, he was prevented from sleeping more than a few hours a day - a technique designed to lower his resistance Every ft) seconda guard looked through a peephole to -- ee that he wa-r.dozing, hut Doigun trained himself to sleep for 50 seconds at a time Convinced that only memory' would keep him sane he recaled the words of all the songs he knew all the hooks he had lead He ' rep'uy ed ' old movies in hi- - head ot b( a lie heard music from an ice skating rink nc t to the he waltzed around his pri-o- ti He caught a fly for cell tiny cotnpanv and tethered it with a thread picked from his towel but his cantors disco-veicit and licsti oyed it lie measured the size of his cell and as he paced it, he computed the (list am e he covered and imagined him-ewain to the In e mg across world d ought not to be told. But I hope 1 ain't hurt nobody " He Tells A Lot it 's Billy right It was a "long interrogator wrote out a fictitious confession for him ,.r,d persuaded him to sign it as the only way to save his life He was sentenced to 25 years in the labor camps and armed there only half alive IBs first act was to defend h,s t trousers ' against three to common" - as oppo-e- d political - prisoners who tried to relieve him of them Bard of Prison His temerity caught the fancy of the criminals' chief who took him under his wing and fed him for ulterior motives It turned out that the shrewd chief had correctly surmised that, as an American, Doigun would have stories to tell and while away the long evenings He became the hard of the prison, narrating the noccls and movies he had reviewed in his head while in solitary ld hen the hief escaped the his hand at making and silling sxxns which were always -- carce and then moved on tit iron bedstead- - and flatirons to he exported to the nearby town He became a me tied in order to gam access to vitamin- - and g'u co-- e to repair hi- - ravaged W c ajthor tried All In Eight Pages Bill can tell about a fire mothers philosophy captivity, Doigun was jokes, fer comparing freed along w ith hundred- - of cars unfavorably others, as a result of a moral with American ones, for and political backla-- h in the dancing with Averell Harri-man'- s Soviet Union Back m Mosuaughter at an official cow. he discovered that his reception, for accepting a gift moher had been tortured by of tobacco from an American the police and reduced, for a naval officer I don't know It time, to sleeping under the is not inconsistent with some city's bridges Her mind was of the authemteated stones unhinged by these experi- we have heard and that is all ences, and she was finally I can say institutionalized Fight for Survival Though he married, had a Concerning what is for me child, and became a highly the most part of successful editor of a pub- the book -interesting the author s perlishing house, Doigun had sonal story of suivival -- feel With had enough of Rus-i- a oi surer ground In his the help of bis sister, who for kec ping body lived in the free world and stratagems and soul together, Doigun was married to an official of showed himself to he a hero the Inticd Nations, he tried of He demon-stiateimprovisation v After a to oht no ail exit isa once again th it even svric- - of .h pressing examtyranny cannot whody supples of of, i ial mdif'erence human stubbornness press hi- - unit fatigahle someand invention how man.Led to get the U S imagination On the purely individual ambds-.niu- r lo speak to the !vel the author is a splendid Dol Soviet amh j''(i piece of propaganda for a tain and h- - f.ipiuy were homegrown Amencan type pc rmittc d to U ae who is generally underrated Imnien-el- y Readable Anatole the handyman Wtiile it - immen-ei- v lead Broyard. New York Times in Ru-si- his of relig- ion, and his uncle's rhyming epitaphs, all in an eight-page chapter. The au hor could have used his editing pencil ruthlessly. But Billy Dnggers is a teller of tales, most of them true, and if many of his tales seem to have little relevance to the a rdetivclv but he sounds like Fe-tHagan of televisions Gunsmoke " However, as the writer. David Pew ell, -ays in his introduction, ifs a Nfw Vo'te Tiwy Wvice sl Dfiwd or reorri trorw bookstores p HO the United Sta necessarily consecutive Bst seller rr-- I 7 3 4 5 4 7 I 9 10 Th Mowycfwwers, Loodiifff Fer Mr Good bar, Rntsner Last Week l Haiiev 3 Shard, Adams The Great Tram oftbary, Cncrron Canfertmal, Mcrtenrr 7 Shoauft, C sveti The Dreadtv Lemon Sky Mar Dona d The Promise ot Jay Drjry The Massacre at Fall Creek Wnst The Boa? Buchhem 7 6 9 3 4 5 Breach ot Faith White TM Dtscevenrs inner Energy ana Overcoming Stress, Bioomtietd Total Fitness, Morehnjsr and Gross hew the Good Guys Ftnaflv Won BiesHr Sylvia Porter i Money Book PorVf 6 Convensat ions with 4 The Ascent ot Man 3 prxvwsk The Bermuda Tnanox? Bf Nice Guvs Finish Last Kennedy 6'v,ie d rqer Kate Hiyham if yovncjhti D iv) 3 2 Uncle Wtntcm Epps typified the dialect and the family m one of his rhymes "The Eppses and the Driggerses was rough and tough and crusty I Their men was double jointed and their womenfolks was lusty. Their dogs could whip the other dogs, their horses run the fastest And when it comp to dunkin' time, no Epps was ever lastesl'" A T"0 story o' a yenn v on ar s Jtpmpt to come to terms witn her M'irmon past o'1 j unsucctss'jl Ho I, wood prsm v Ps r conspire to make this quietly s fiction unique among contemporary women ds heroine's refusal to bow before the litany women s frustrations, and her of coniempo-ar- y of the strength that derived from the discovery Mormon heritage that once bound ... and choked her."-fe- me "Two qualit.es T r ; Weeks On Lilt Id 6 U trails" Newell loose end- - of hu 8 b 6 'J (jji Lighting Fixtures Fireplace Screens Reductions 1 Gas Logs Andirons to 40 0 s. S fif i i. Cl el oix 4 fy t 1 & , y s w J'r 533 South .Main Gptn SAM to 5.30 P.M uWMM , F fv f ST N Saturday 0 1 A M to 3:30 P. He also launched World War II, which brought Hitleri-n- i to a fiery end to- The manuscript reportedly caused Israeli Pre nuer YTtliak Rabin to tell his cabinet publication would infuriate the United .States and particularly who might he fori od to icsign a- - a rc suit t i t - Matti singer." For an undisclosed sum over $100,006, the contract gives the publishers world rights in all languages except Hebrew for a manuscript basedon secret documents detailing Kissinger's diplomatic conversations with world leaders from the outbreak of the Arab Israeli war ij. (SjAsI HSiiU- I in which 6 million perished. !!(' I Ay vu i -- rtif m Jews raeli journalist gether He leaves the reader with a touch of sadness, too, when he discovers that life is no longer as simple as Billy Hi iggt i - life and that and burgeoning populamms have already destroyed much of the untamed country and wildlife that was s i plentiful in the back-- c omit i.v where Billy Driggers and others like him have lived Rovtiihson. .UU- - brought the incredible holocaust Golan for a book tentatively titled, The Secret Conversations of Henry Kis- mdus-tiialiati- t mediately began entrenching 'uvage dictatorship that a Washington Post Service Bantam Books and Quadrangle. Tl. New Y'ork Tunes book company , hav e signed a copub-lishin- g agreement v ith Is- knows story years after "Mem Kampf" appeared, Hitler was chancellor and imEight ki linger talk the country, its people and its game, so in the end he ties ihe k Our Store Wide ummer Talked Incessantly Hitler talked incessantly to diplomats of peace, vv hile to his party he talked of war As the Nazi anthem put it, "Today we own Germany, tommrow the whole world " Her Fuehrer fanatically hated tlm-he imagined -- tubbed Germany in the hac k" by accepting the 1918 armistice and the subsequent tieaty. He blamed the leaders of the postwar Weimar Republic and all Jews nlhor ink pad tor Vccrr editor-i- n chief of "Field and Stream and roving editor of "Sports Afield," and he had lived in, hunted and the Gulf Hammock of northern Florida for almost 60 years, so perhaps he can be forgiven for wnt-iras Billy says, like a hound dog that strayed oft un side GENERAL I 3 Billys ed FICTION TtHt 1 It's c Savage Dictatorship universal dialect, whatever came easiest off his tongue and flowed the smoothest " The dialect is typical of the simple, straightforward, rustic people anywhere who live independently but lack formal education. former tMn 250 ln'OipQtXrt Meet us Ml humane Diary, wrote from Berlin that "much of what is going on and will go on could be learned by the outside world Ironi Mein Kampf. How many visiting butter-and-eg-g men have I told that Ihe Nazi goal is domination. They laughed, hut Hitler frankly admits it He said in 'Mein Kampf: "A state which m an age of racial pollution devotes itself to ultiv ation of its best racial elements must some day become master of the earth es racker Author David Newell is a SciltTh anti-Sovi- When lie wa on the brink of William S Shirer, describHitlers rise m "Berlin ing e he want- - to tell, it -'t cent to matter Florida Cracker Billys dialect is Florida lory Ru-si- les Hjip:, But it's the kind of book that aoesn t demand that the leader pMw through it to diacov er the climax Its the kind of book the reader can pick up, read thiee or four pages, and lay down again without losing the thread of the story . Carusos records, n -- doe-n- c -- able and carries a good deal body Eventually. he progres- conviction, 1 find it almost -- ed to a could point where he a mputate toes impossible to assess the accuand even perform an appen- racy of Alexander Dolgun's Story " Is it true that citizens ded tomy . of the Soviet Union were Final Freedom sentenced to 25 years in the After seven a a half years labor camps for telling frost-bitte- entertaining story, especially for hunters and fish men. hunt for deer, a disastrous baby sitting episode, Enrico and in his wandering way he did tell a lot of things that didn't need drawn-ou- t. to be told But he didn't hurt anyone, either As a mattered fact his life's tale is an lf death ed Florida cracker tells some tales A tiny due Pupei- 'lsssi which - the final drama of all Holmes need biographies not have been concerned, for the arto of biography was ever damned, Shelley. The i Povsrful emotional impact! -- and French read "Mein My Battle Kampf" Kampt" more attentively in appeared July 18, 1825, it got the 19lOs when Hitler's Naalmost no attention outside tional Sociah-t- toGermany. ward power, 2th century lu dory could have been 597 Editions greatly d.flerent. Inside Germany, it wu "Mein Kampf r polled om destined to circulate in 5(7 the race superioiity theory editions, alwut Jit million which Hitler expected by copies Millions of copies to conquer Eurie Germany were eventually sold abroad and dominate the wot id The West Germart govern When Volume I appeared. ment today due -- n t allow Hitler a war voter m of the reprints The hook - bttie Kaisers imperial Geiman read and is,i t seen on sale m army, had been out of Land Germany sberg prison for s' months He had served less than a In PtV, Houghton Md.'lm vear of a five year sentence Co brought old the tr-- ' Ann i ic an tdition the same tor treason in the Nazi at Don't lIjjijM'ii Alexander Dolguns Story testimonial to eourage "Alexander Dolguin's Berlin Diary But had Americans, British rn -' ontemporarv Pertinence -- hall I prai-- e it for its ( ontemporarv pertinence Fills is the hook s appeal Shelle;, wa- - horn m the renth graduate Jaint-- s Or 1 ' t out of Claire Clan-mon- t in her old .me Holme -Hi- - 'I e oia hides rueful Is i ( glow More Attentive woes pu-li- !ov(-lette- fit-h- or Uf i x; i: about ,i young Harvard graduate who went to Flor cine .md tried to charm Shellev s ' -- uppo-od ,v hadow V X? x -- munmous ith V ictorian femininity and about whom John Ieale once wioie a locular poem (pics tinning whetliti tie wa- - a mail at ad And all this has now been radically added bv Holme s In igi iphy -- -- It - all of this and more, hie to equatsulfice it to ay that ionHolmes, a Jo year old Cam budge graduate, r counts al the vuy end an anecdote the "Muttering apparition , isbellc who-- e name tame to lx-.- - . iT' i tempt to seize power in the Munich "beerluil putsch" of November. 1923 Hitler completed plans for the book in prison and would boa-- t that Landsberg was "my college at state moo-- - Shelle , '1. ee wa- got Shcllcv the ehpfo ed au'ho To a ot the late ltl an lyric- The (.load," To Skvlaik, When the Lamp Is Jane. i abridged version as published in London Full editions appeared in the United States later and even today there remains a brisk inatket for it in hard cover and paperback, mostly among scholars, say the publishers When the first of two volumes of Adolf Hitler's "Mem Calais, the sense of the Swi-- s lp- - that wore such a powerful pre-edin the Romantic tradition the sen-- e of the Ca-- a Magm. in I.erici or the Mediterranean where Shelwent to las death lev final! on the -- ailhoat Hon Juan '' itallv Sliatteied' worlds current to sailboat d Ryan AP Spei ial Correspondent book by a former hou-- e -- storm-tosse- rP V haltlo hi- - ByWilbamL y - i.iJitdl friend Lord his el inns vaidling fame Bv - up Inntk. I u.l'V Mein Kampf, outline for terror Amencan scene Extraordinary Drama Oi hall 1 simply praise this inograp'i y lor its extraordt-mr- v This is the drama hook s triumph Is it because of the s( holar Iv detective work with wh.ch Holme- - works out the sources of Shelleys artistic inspiration and track- - down the lac-tbehind several of the of coidroveis.nl incident life (such as an Shellev earl attempt that the poet was once thought to have hallucinated)' fir is it because ol the unusually immediate sense of place the book conveys The ense of Shelley eloping with the two Godwin women on a biography redeems the art eeds of the myth were sown in the F.nglish romantic poo?- - life. I -- rrti ij , -- for hat the As tlie Had Sheik not exiled him elf from hi- - social class and country, his most radical oohtieal statement- - might s it have been published wa- -, with Shelle in Italy ironi 1818 until his death in .2, his publisher- - would have had to bear the burnt done of the English government's repressive laws, and injmi.ili ,;.i about his career has ng relevance Shelley '-- ' 1 A $.0. p.f community for lien love He was. m a sense, a piotohsppu. 'though he never used drug1: w a a n highly self- - Brilliant "Shelley: The Pursuit, fey Richard Holmes, E. P. Dalton & Co., Inc., Illustrated. news 1973 . iTwwi) |
