Volume 9, Number 12 · January 4, 1968
Nightmares
By Helen Muchnic
Journey into the Whirlwind
by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg, translated by Paul Stevenson, translated by Max Hayward
Harcourt, Brace & World, 417 pp., $6.95
The Deserted House
by Lydia Chukovskaya, translated by Aline B. Werth
Dutton, 144 pp., $3.95
These books are concerned with the Stalinist purges. In Journey into the Whirlwind Eugenia Ginzburg sets down the chronicle of her own imprisonment and exile; in The Deserted House Lydia Chukovskaya writes a short novel about what she saw in 1937. The document seems a nightmare fantasy, the novelette a document.
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