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Andrei Sinyavsky (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Andrei Sinyavsky is also the author of an important book-length essay, Chto takoe sotsialisticheskii realizm (1959; On Socialist Realism, 1960), in which he maintained with some humor that realism is not the proper medium for the mythmaking inherent in a Communist society. Because he believed that the grandiose Neoclassicism inherited from eighteenth century Russian literature had also become inadequate, Sinyavsky proposed that the more appropriate genre would be fantasy, and he himself became a writer of fantasy. His collection...

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