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Andrei Sinyavsky (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Before his arrest in 1965 for smuggling “anti-Soviet propaganda,” Andrei Sinyavsky was a senior research associate at the Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow and had become a well-known literary critic, focusing primarily on modern Russian literature. After emigrating to Paris in 1973, he published more criticism as well as book-length literary essays. The works that led to his arrest, however, were, except for the literary essay Chto takoe sotsialisticheskii realizm (1959; On Socialist Realism, 1960), fiction: two novels and...

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