Volume 3, Number 5 · October 22, 1964
Coming Up For Air
By Helen Muchnic
Dissonant Voices in Soviet Literature
edited by Patricia Blake, edited by Max Hayward
Pantheon, 308 pp., $5.95
Pages from Tarusa: New Voices in Russian Writing
edited by Andrew Field
Little, Brown, 367 pp., $6.75
The New Writing in Russia
translated with an Introduction by Thomas P. Whitney
University of Michigan, 412 pp., $6.95
Half-way to the Moon: New Writing from Russia
edited by Patricia Blake, edited by Max Hayward
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 280 pp., $5.95
Soviet Literature in the Sixties
edited by Max Hayward, edited by Edward L. Crowley
Praeger, 221 pp., $4.95
On the 18th of February of this year, a twenty-four-year-old Russian poet, Josif Brodsky, was brought to trial in Leningrad. His work is little known, but by some of the most reliable judges of Russian literature it is considered exceptionally fine. The charge against him was social uselessness; he had no regular employment, was not connected with any institution, was, in short, a parasite:
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