Volume 23, Number 13 · August 5, 1976
Light from Above
By Helen Muchnic
A Voice from the Chorus
by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky), Translated from the Russian by Kyril Fitzlyon, by Max Hayward
Russian-language edition, Octagon Books, 339 pp., $15.00
In the 1960s readers in the West speculated about the identity of 'Abram Tertz,' whose work, arriving from Soviet Russia, was being published in Paris, London, and New York. The writing was highly original and varied in tone: humorous, terrifying, phantasmagoric, satiric, devout. Between 1959 and 1965 there appeared an essay, 'On Socialist Realism,' two short novels, The Trial Begins and The Makepeace Experiment, a book of reflections, Unguarded Thoughts, and a collection of tales, Fantastic Stories. The secret of their authorship was well guarded.
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