Goodnight!

by Andrei Sinyavsky, Richard Lourie (Translator), Abram Tertz (pseudonym)

A persecuted Soviet author presents an autobiographical novel that attempts to explain his 1965 trial and prosecution for writing fiction under a pseudonym

Genres: Fiction, Russia

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky was a Russian writer and a literary critic. He was a Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial of 1965.

Russian: Андрей Донатович Синявский
Pen name: Абрам Терц
Pen name in English: Abram Tertz

Reviews

[Fatemeh Mehrasa · Rating 1 out of 5]

من اینو نخوندم((((: اونی که من خوندم به همین اسم اما نوشته البرتو مواریا ست که خب پیداش نکردم. قصه راجعبه ۶ نفر بود که برای غذا خوردن به رستورانی رفته بودن، کثیف، شلوغ، سرد، با مردمی بی‌شعور.
چیزی که هست شم امیبینید هر ۶ نفر خوب بودن اما اینقدر جامعه دور از اخلاق و ادبه که همه فکر میکنن ایراد از این ۶ نفره.
جامعه‌تو عوض کن.
شاید اونی که غلطه، تو نیستی.

[Liz · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm loving this. I feel like Sinyavsky (Tertz) has pulled up a chair in my den and is just sharing a very intense story with me and me alone. I'm early in on this one but here is part of a paragraph that grabbed me. He discusses those who cheered with gusto at the sentence handed down to him.."No matter what crime you may have committed at some point, no matter which transgressions of yours have been exposed, you will rejoice, I assure you, even while shuddering within: you will rejoice that there are people worse than you ever imagined, far lower than you, if they dare celebrate a person's suffering so frankly, with such human openness"
This is my first toe-dip into the sea of Sinyavsky and I expect to read more by him in the coming months.

[Derek · Rating 4 out of 5]

All Terz (Sinyavsky) books are good. You just need to decide whether the fiction or memoirs or literary criticism suits you best.

[Milena · Rating 4 out of 5]

Confusionario e rocambolesco ma di grande impatto.

[Max · Rating 4 out of 5]

Schwer verständlich, aber geil.