When Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the Soviet poet who gave the world "Babi Yar" ("There is no Jewish blood that's blood of mine, / But, hated with a passion that's corrosive / Am I by antisemites like a Jew. / And that is why I call myself a Russian!") was touring Cambridge University, he struck up an unlikely friendship with the august curmudgeon-in-residence Kingsley Amis, whom I mention here about once a week. Amis would later protest, after oscillating between personal affinity and political morality, awarding Yevtushenko the Chair of Poetry at Oxford Unversity due to the poet's coarsened rhetoric about his fellow Russian liberals and his subsequent transformation into a paid stooge of the Kremlin. But during that Cambridge jaunt, Yevtushenko asked Amis, "You believe in God?" to which the ex-Communist author of Lucky Jim replied, "Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him."
For those who still have trouble deciding between atheism and belief, active, convulsive hatred of the Almighty — perhaps accompanied by your best "crazy peasant face" — might serve as a healthy in-between position. Ron Rosenbaum says I.B. Singer founded a whole career in Yiddish literature on what he (Rosenbaum) terms "anti-theism." A new biography of Singer has just been published and in it you'll find these and other theodiciously delicious tidbits:
“I have written a little book which I call Rebellion and Prayer, or The True Protester. It is still in Yiddish, untranslated. It was written at the time of the Holocaust. It is a bitter little book, and I doubt that I will ever publish it. Yes, I am a troubled person …. If I could, I would picket the Almighty with a sign: ‘Unfair to Life.’”
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