Little Jinx
1992
First Published
3.67
Average Rating
80
Number of Pages
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.
Avg Rating
3.67
Number of Ratings
30
5 STARS
23%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
13%
1 STARS
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Author
Andrei Sinyavsky
Author · 13 books
a.k.a. Abram Tertz Soviet dissident author. With co-defendant Yuli Daniel, the first defendant in a Soviet show trial to plead innocent.
