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The Trial Begins

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Abram Tertz, one of the most important writers to emerge in the Soviet Union since World War II, came to prominence in 1959 when On Socialist Realism was published in the West. It was the first important critique of the central dogma of Soviet literature. It arrived with a novel. The Trial Begins, which was published in 1960. Other books followed these into the West, until in 1965 a respected literary scholar at the Gorky Institute, Andrei Sinyavsky was arrested, revealed to be Abram Tertz, tried, and sentenced to seven years in a forced labor camp.

A Soviet public prosecutor´s life falls apart, as his wife starts an affair, his son starts thinking for himself and is accused of trotskyism and he himself starts prosecuting a Jewish doctor for abortion.

Language: English

Pages: 95

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Fontana / Collins

Release: May 10, 1977

ISBN: 1199982415

ISBN 13: 1199982415

The Trial Begins

3/5 ( ratings)

Abram Tertz, one of the most important writers to emerge in the Soviet Union since World War II, came to prominence in 1959 when On Socialist Realism was published in the West. It was the first important critique of the central dogma of Soviet literature. It arrived with a novel. The Trial Begins, which was published in 1960. Other books followed these into the West, until in 1965 a respected literary scholar at the Gorky Institute, Andrei Sinyavsky was arrested, revealed to be Abram Tertz, tried, and sentenced to seven years in a forced labor camp.

A Soviet public prosecutor´s life falls apart, as his wife starts an affair, his son starts thinking for himself and is accused of trotskyism and he himself starts prosecuting a Jewish doctor for abortion.

Language: English

Pages: 95

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Fontana / Collins

Release: May 10, 1977

ISBN: 1199982415

ISBN 13: 1199982415

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