Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1959-02-01 / 2. szám

FRATERNITY

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1956, manuscript.) Approximately one-third of his legacy consists of literary essays and political pamphlets. Because, like Victor Hugo, Zola, Tolstoy and most political novelists, he was also a sharp-penned political pamphleteer in opposition to the existing regime which dreaded and tried to isolate him. Of course, the volumes are of unequal value and lose their timeliness as years pass. They do reflect, however, the stormy half century, the antagonisms, the transition from life in times of peace to world wars, revolutions, counter-revolutions, national hopes, uprisings and downfalls.

(To be continued)

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO IN RUSSIAN

The original, authentic Russian text of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, as written by Boris Pasternak, was published on February 2, 1959, by the University of Michigan Press, for distribution throughout the Western Hemisphere, the Philippines and Japan. It is priced at $6.50.

One of the most widely read, and surely the most talked about novel of our time, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO helped earn its distinguished author a Nobel Prize that he at first accepted and later was forced to refuse. It has been published in almost every language of the civilized world save the one in which it was written. More than 500,000 copies of the English translation have been bought in this country, and more than another million copies, it is estimated, in other translations throughout the world.

Yet DOCTOR ZHIVAGO remains to this day unpublished in Soviet Russia, suppressed by the Soviet Writers’ Union. Publication of this major work by the man who is considered Russia’s greatest living stylist, in the language in which it was written, is an important service to world literature, and to the cause of freedom of expression.

BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND CHANGE OF NAME

Question: When I was naturalized I Americanized my name. My children, born before my naturalization, have birth certificates showing my old name. I wonder whether such birth certificates can be corrected to show my new name?

Answer: Yes, such amendments can be made. Since birth certificates are issued by local authorities, the regulations in each state will differ. To find out the procedure, a letter should be addressed to the office which has the birth records of your children, with the request that an amendment be permitted. After appropriate forms have been furnished by the office, your certificate of naturalization may serve as proof of your change of name.