Books: I Grieve, Therefore I Am

ANATOMY OF A MORAL (181 pp.)—Milovan Djilas—Praeger ($2.95).

BITTER HARVEST (313 pp.)—Edited by Edmund Stillman, introduction by François Bondy—Praeger ($5).

"Aloneness." brooded Poet W. H. Auden during a leaden hour of World War II, "is man's real condition." Nearly two decades later, the saga of Soviet Poet Boris (Doctor Zhivago) Pasternak suggests that the century's loneliest crowd consists of creative intellects behind Iron and .Bamboo Curtains. Even when these curtains rise briefly, as during the thaw that followed Stalin's death, they reveal strictly solitary singers. At one time or another, the authors represented in these two collections of protesting voices belonged to the...