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...vague that it could be used to suppress practically all forms of creative effort. Exposed as the authors of particularly controversial stories, Alex ei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were arrested last September but were brought to trial only last week. Their writings, published outside Russia under the psuedonyms Tertz and Arzhak, were fantastic portrayals of Soviet society. Sinyavsky depicted the horrors of the Stalinist trials and the inner workings of Stalin's regime in one of his short stories, "The Trial Begins." Daniel's tale "Moscow Speaks" envisioned a day of legalized crime and violence throughout the country. Writing...
...ground burlesque of Soviet justice circulated these days throughout Russia in tattered manuscript or smuggled out for publication in the West. But it really was Radio Moscow talking. On trial in a dingy yellow brick Moscow court house last week were bearded Critic Andrei Sinyavsky, 40, known as "Abram Tertz" in the West since his macabre manuscripts first appeared in London in 1960, and Translator Yuli Daniel, 40, alias "Nikolai Arzhak," in his underground work an equally outspoken short-story writer. In an 18-page indictment, they were charged under Ar ticle 70 of the Russian criminal code with disseminating...
Schizoid Progress. The trial drew much attention. Outside the courthouse last week, some 30 of Sinyavsky-Tertz's students from the Institute of World Literature stationed themselves defiant ly, despite deep snow and 6-below-zero temperature. More important, the trial illustrated the curiously schizoid prog ress of Soviet justice. Never before in a Soviet court had two authors been accused of "political crimes" on the basis of their literary output alone, and the inevitable convictions would set a disastrous legal precedent for esthetic freedom in Russia. On the other hand, a trial conducted with press coverage marked some...
While the taste for Tertz has obviously not yet been acquired in the Kremlin, those in the courtroom got a chance to hear his works read aloud by the prosecutor. One quoted passage, heavily edited, described the failings of the Russian people, who unfortunately, in Sinyavsky's opinion, are drunkards, thieves and "incapable of creating a culture." Asked for an explanation of such a "slanderous" statement, Sinyavsky explained: "I wanted to tell about the spiritual needs of the Soviet people." The courtroom, as usual, "dissolved in laughter...
Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, better known pseudonymously as Abrarri Tertz and Nikolai Arzha--are about to stand trial for publishing books that criticize conditions under Communism (TIME...