Volume 21, Number 14 · September 19, 1974
An Appeal for Vladimir Maramzin
By Joseph Brodsky
In early August it was reported that the writer Vladimir Rafailovich Maramzin was arrested in Leningrad by KGB agents. Maramzin's name is certainly less known to the general public than Solzhenitsyn's. Perhaps this arrest will disclose to the reader that there is yet another writer in Russia. To put it in plain language, Russia is that country where the name of a writer appears not on the cover of his book, but on the door of his prison cell.
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