Little Jinx

By Andrei Sinyavsky

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810110415
• ISBN13: 9780810110410
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"