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| | CONTEXT: Issue No. 14 |
 | | Writers, like their creative colleagues elsewhere in the Soviet bloc, used explicitly historical subjects as pretexts for articulating coded criticism of the régime, being able to count on a public with long practice in reading between the lines. |
 | | This group of a Hungarian, a Jew, a Serb, a Croat, and a Bosnian, each of whom sheds tears with strange qualities (fl grit, ice, spontaneously combusting honeydew, etc.)their wailing [is] one long story, alpha and omega, without a moments respite. |
 | | The approaches and types of subject encompassed by these contemporary Hungarian writers are not too many miles perhaps not five miles, but not 5,000 miles either from the general area of operations staked out by, say, John Barth, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelmé, William Gaddis, and David Foster Wallace. |
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