| Little Jinx Contributor(s): Tertz, Abram (Author), Joseph, Larry P. (Translator), May, Rachel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810110415 ISBN-13: 9780810110410 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91-45659 |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.14" W x 7.79" (0.23 lbs) 80 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Little Jinx is a canny mockery of the Soviet world. Its author, Andrei Sinyavsky, a respectable member of the USSR's Institute for World Literature, was exposed in 1965 as the real author of a series of irreverent essays and fantastic tales that had been circulating under the nom de plume Abram Tertz. After five years in a labor camp he immigrated to Paris. Little Jinx is the tale of a man named Sinyavsky, a literary hack and runt who clumsily survives repression and anti-Semitism but also brings misery to those around him. When this little jinx inadvertently causes the death of his five brothers, he is consumed by a guilt that seems universal in his society. |