Volume 39, Number 9 · May 14, 1992
Defending the Faith
By David Remnick
Reflections on Russia
by Dmitri S. Likhachev, edited by Nicolai N. Petro, translated by Christina Sever
Westview Press, 191 pp., $31.50
Zametki i Nabludeniya: Iz Zapisnikh knizhek razhnikh lyet (Notes and Observations: From Notebooks Over the Years)
by Dmitri S. Likhachev
Sovietski Pisatel', 606 pp., 1.50 rubles
Bibliographia: Dmitri Sergeyevich Likhachev
edited by V. P. Adrionovi-Perets, by M.A. Salminoi et al.
Nauka Publishers, 300 pp., 85 kopecks
Glasnost: An Anthology of Russian Literature under Gorbachev
edited by Helena Goscilo, edited by Byron Lindsey
Ardis Publishers, 466 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Stikhi iz Tyurmi (Poems From Prison)
by Anatoly Lukyanov
Paleya, 35 pp., no price
Sleepwalker in a Fog
by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated by Jamey Gambrell
Knopf, 192 pp., $19.00
Just before he went into exile twenty years ago, Joseph Brodsky took up a long tradition and sent a letter to the tsar. 'Dear Leonid Illich,' he wrote to Brezhnev, 'A language is a much more ancient and inevitable thing than a state. I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, I believe the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives…. Although I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.'[1]
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