Andrei Sinyavsky or rather the importance of the pseudonym. What could be more normal or, if you will, more banal than the false name by which a writer sometimes signs his works? There is even an article in the Civil Code that protects the pseudonym from usurpation by others...

The Transition Book of a Famous Russian Writer

ABRAM TERTZ

Golos iz khora

Stenvalley press, London, pages 339, 5 pounds

From the dust-jacket blurb of the volume we understand that this is a farewell from Tertz to his readers...

Meeting with Andrey Sinyavsky in Milan

I say to Andrey Sinyavsky: «I would like to speak with you about exile. About the writer in exile. Pasternak saw it as a punishment, he asked to be exempted. He wrote: ‘I wouldn’t be far from my land and from my people’...