25 February 1997 year
He passed away in Paris. Andrey Sinyavsky - writer, critic, dissident. Author of the phrase:
I have aesthetic disagreements with the Soviet government.
Born in 1925 to a former nobleman. He served as a radio technician during the war. He graduated from the Philology Department of Moscow State University. He worked at the Institute of World Literature. In the liberal New World under the direction of Tvardovsky He was a leading literary critic. In 1960, he became a member of the Writers' Union. Not for long.
I'm simply not interested in writing the way it's accepted or the way I'm told.
How a literary scholar wrote about creativity Gorky, Babel, Akhmatova, PasternakHe couldn't publish his own prose in the USSR. He published it in the West under a pseudonym. Abram Tertz. Manuscripts of Sinyavsky and Julia Daniela (Nikolai Arzhak) was taken abroad by an acquaintance - the daughter of a French naval attaché.
Literature by its nature is dissent (in the broad sense of the word) in relation to the prevailing point of view on things
Sinyavsky and Daniel were arrested in 1965. They were accused of writing works that "defame the Soviet state system." These included Daniel's dystopian novella "Moscow Speaking," Sinyavsky's novella "The Court Is in Session," and the article "What is Socialist Realism."
Is there such a thing as socialist, capitalist, Christian, or Mohammedan realism?
Daniel was sentenced to five years, Sinyavsky to seven years in a maximum-security penal colony. The writers pleaded not guilty. The verdict sparked an international scandal and protests within the USSR, marking the beginning of a widespread dissident movement.
To make prisons disappear forever, we built new prisons <> To make sure not a single drop of blood was shed, we killed, killed, and killed
He was released from prison early, on Andropov's initiative. He went to France and taught at the university. He wrote. He came into conflict with Solzhenitsyn, accusing him of "establishing a new unanimity." He published the journal "Syntax."
In 1993, he condemned Yeltsin for the shooting of the White House.
Democracies exist without presidents, but not without parliament, without an independent judiciary, without freedom of the press and personal integrity.
He died at the age of 71.