Goodnight! (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Sinyavsky
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Autobiographical
- Time of Work: The 1940’s through 1971
- Setting: The Soviet Union
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, 1970’s, Communism or communists, Politics, Prisoners, Prisons, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Soviet Union or Soviets, Concentration camps, Propaganda, Dissent or dissenters
- Locales: Soviet Union
Characters Discussed
Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (ahn- DRAY doh-NAH-toh-vihch sih-NYAV- skee), a writer later known under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. Brought up by a revolutionary father, Sinyavsky studied Russian literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His dedication to phantasmagoric literature flew in the face of the officially accepted Socialist Realism. Sinyavsky eventually had his work smuggled out of the country and published in the West under the pseudonym Abram Tertz. He is eventually arrested and imprisoned. After his release, he discovers that...
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