SUICIDE THOUGHTS

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 20

SUICIDE THOUGHTS

Solzhenitsyn's J memoir 1 (ft .ZP.A.-Reuter—Copyright) I NEW YORK, Feb. 24/ . The Soviet writer, Alexr ander Solzhenitsyn, says in a! r newly-published memoir that . he contemplated killing him- . self in 1965, after Soviet secret police raided two Moscow apartments where he had hidden his archives. The exiled novelist’s latest book, “The Calf Butted Thej Oak,” was published last week by the Russianlanguage Y.M.C.A. press in Paris on the anniversary of his banishment from the Soviet Union. Parts of it are quoted in this week’s edition of “Time” magazine. “I was so depressed that I contemplated suicide, for the first and, I hope, the last time in my life,” Solzhenitsyn says in the book. After the raid, he began . microfilming his work and arranging to have it sent abroad by t'he underground. ; The Nobel prize winner, ; who now lives in Switzer- J land, also accuses the; J foreign press of taking little H notice of the seizure of his/ work. “There was no in relying on the West andi j for us, there never will be,”i' he says in the book.