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"Mr. Venclova...makes Wat accessible to western readers. In so doing, he underlines a curious truth about the former Soviet bloc. Because all art and information was so heavily controlled by the state, people were driven to value independent culture far more passionately than anyone in the free world did."Tomas Venclova is the author of 'Aleksander Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast', published 1996 under ISBN 9780300064063 and ISBN 0300064063.
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