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DR. ZHIVAGO by Pasternak & THE SECRET OF LUCA by Ignazio Silone have so much to do with the state of the world that it is difficult to approach them simply as works of art. Both have basically the same theme, the invasion of man's moral & intellectual being by the gendarmerie of power that attaches itself to & acts in the name of history, justice & equality. Both of them take their meaning from the fate of the Socialist & Communist movements in the West as well as behind the Iron Curtain. A work such as DR. ZHIVAGO could have come only out of a genuine involvement in the pol'al events of our time & in their moral & intellectual consequence. In recent yrs novelists in Western Europe & in this country have shied away from pol'al subjects. The pol'al situation has had little imaginative appeal for intellectuals nor has there been any theory or movement to engage their pol'al idealism. Silone asserts the primacy of the moral act while Pasternak's defiance is made in the name of creativity. J. A. Fishman.