Volume 38, Number 12 · June 27, 1991
The Triumph of Abram Tertz
By Joseph Frank
Goodnight! A Novel
by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), translated and with an introduction by Richard Lourie
Viking, 364 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History
by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Joanne Turnbull, with the assistance of Nikolai Formozov
Arcade, 291 pp., $24.95
'Opavshie Listya' V.V. Rozanova
by Andrei Sinyavsky
Syntaxis, 336 pp., 49 Fr
Ivan le Simple: Paganisme, magie et religion du peuple russe
by André Siniavski, translated by Antonina Robichou-Stretz
Albin Michel, 435 pp., 140 Fr
Dans I'ombre de Gogol
by Abram Tertz (André Siniavski), translated by Georges Nivat
Editions du Seuil, 340 pp., 77 Fr
Promenades avec Pouchkine
by Abram Tertz (André Siniavski), translated by Louis Martinez
Editions du Seuil, 156 pp., 60.50 Fr
Andre-la-Poisse (Kroshka Tsores)
by Abram Tertz (André Siniavski), translated by Louis Martinez
Albin Michel, 126 pp., 35 Fr
So much change has taken place in the Soviet Union in the last twenty-five years, particularly in the last ten, that it is difficult now even to imagine the excitement produced by the arrest, trial, and sentencing of two young writers, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, in February 1966. Their 'crime' had been to smuggle out, and have printed in the West under the pseudonyms of Abram Tertz and Nikolay Arzhak, various works of fiction and, in the case of Tertz-Sinyavsky, an essay, On Socialist Realism. Both were sent to work camps, Sinyavsky for seven years (though he was released after six) and Daniel for five. A year after obtaining his freedom, Sinyavsky emigrated to France; already a noted scholar at the time of his arrest, he took up a post teaching Russian literature at the Sorbonne. Daniel remained in Russia, and died in 1988.
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