The Trial Begins : A Secret Novel From Young Russia, Abram Tertz, 1960, HCDJ

by Abram Tertz

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The Trial Begins : A Secret Novel From Young Russia Abram Tertz 1960 Written in secret and smuggled out of Russia by an unknown Soviet writer using the pseudonym Abram Tertz, this "philosophical fable" will confirm for Americans two important facts: that there is an undeniable trend in the Soviet to express criticism and dissatisfaction with the social structure, a trend already manifest in reports about the activities of the angry young men of the Soviet Union, the juvenile delinquents and rebellious young writers and painters; and secondly, that the great tradition of Russian letters continues to produce forceful writing in new and up-to-date terms. --Dust Jacket Blurb ____________________ The Trial Begins (1960) is a short novel with characters reacting in different ways to their roles in a totalitarian society, told with elements of the fantastic. ... Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (8 October 1925 – 25 February 1997) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial of 1965. Sinyavsky was a literary critic for Novy Mir and wrote works critical of Soviet society under the pseudonym Abram Tertz published in the West to avoid censorship in the Soviet Union. Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were convicted of Anti-Soviet agitation in a show trial, becoming the first Soviet writers convicted solely for their works and for fiction, and served six years at a labour camp. Sinyavsky emigrated to France in 1973 where he became a professor of Russian

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Year: 1960
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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