Nightingales
John Bayley, 15 April 1982
Nightingale Fever: Russian Poets in Revolution
by Ronald Hingley.
Weidenfeld, 269 pp., £12.95, January 1982,0 297 77902 8 Show More
by Ronald Hingley.
Weidenfeld, 269 pp., £12.95, January 1982,
Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917-1978
by Ronald Hingley.
Methuen, 296 pp., £4.95, June 1981,0 416 31390 6 Show More
by Ronald Hingley.
Methuen, 296 pp., £4.95, June 1981,
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union
edited by Archie Brown.
Cambridge, 492 pp., £18.50, February 1982,0 521 23169 8 Show More
edited by Archie Brown.
Cambridge, 492 pp., £18.50, February 1982,
‘Novy Mir’: A Case-Study in the Politics of Literature 1952-1958
by Edith Frankel.
Cambridge, 206 pp., £19.50, November 1981,0 521 23438 7 Show More
by Edith Frankel.
Cambridge, 206 pp., £19.50, November 1981,
“... essentially vulgar displays like the recent book and play on Hitler by George Steiner and Christopher Hampton. Only books of a very exceptional kind – Solzhenitsyn’s and the memoirs of Mandelstam’s widow – can confront the nature of the tyranny directly, and they do so, not by the poetic word, but by putting first-hand experience in order with ... ”