[SINIAVSKII, Andrei Donatovich.] TERTS, Abram, pseud.

Liubimov [known in translation as: The Makepeace Experiment].

Washington, Filipoff, 1964. 8vo, pp. 167; in the original printed wrappers, with bookplate. First edition in Russian of the short novel Liubimov, in which the protagonist uses mass hypnosis to convince the residents of a small town that he can turn a river into champagne and create a utopian state. 'As the author of a number of critical studies on Russian poetry... Sinyavsky had acquired a certain status as a literary scholar even before his arrest. Secretly, however, under the pseudonym "Abram Terts", he wrote an article on Soviet socialist realism, two short novels (Liubimov and The Trial Begins), a number of short stories, and a collection of aphorisms (Unguarded Thoughts). These works were smuggled abroad for publication and engendered in the KGB an intensive search for the author. In 1965 Sinyavsky was imprisoned together with Yuly Daniel' (Victor Terras).

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