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During a time of extreme censorship, Siniavsky published both under his real name and (through samizdat, and Western publication) his pseudonym. The historical Abram Tertz was a Jewish gangster from Russian past; Siniavsky himself was not Jewish.
On Socialist Realism (1959) criticised the poor quality of the drearily positive-toned, conflict-free strictures of state art, and called for a return to the fantastic in Soviet literature, the tradition, he said, of Gogol and Vladimir Mayakovsky.
The Trial Begins (1960) a short novel with characters reacting in different ways to their roles in a totalitarian society, told with elements of the fantastic.
The Makepeace Experiment (1963) is an allegorical novel of Russia where a leader uses non-rational powers to rule.
Fantastic Stories is a collection of short stories, such as "The Icicle". The stories are mostly culled from the 1950s and 1960s, and are written in the fantastic tradition of Gogol, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Yevgeny Zamyatin.
A Voice from the Chorus (1973) is a collection of scattered thoughts from the gulag, composed in letters he wrote to his wife. It contains snippets of literary thoughts as well as the comments and conversations of fellow prisoners, most of the criminals or even German war prisoners.
Goodnight! (1984) is an autobiographical novel.
Quote: "All writers are dissidents".
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