The unjust and carping article in a remote Far Eastern newspaper censured the book of a young poet. It might seem that this was no catastrophe for all writers, even the greatest, have their setbacks. How many unjust criticisms have been read by Leonid Leonov and Alexei Tolstoy, Ilya Ehrenburg and Konstantin Paustovsky about their works! Even The Life of Klim Samgin and And Quiet Flows the Don once drew criticisms which can only evoke surprise and indignation today. What monstrous prejudice could have blinded those critics to the depth and artistic power of these masterpieces?