Benedikt Sarnov

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Benedikt Sarnov
Benedikt Sarnov, Russian writer
Born 1927
Moscow, Russia

Benedikt Sarnov (born 1927) is a Moscow literary critic, scholar, and writer old enough to have vivid memories of the Stalin period. His entire career in the Soviet period involved a struggle between what he wanted to publish and what would pass the censors' vigilant eye. Nevertheless he has published over twenty books and hundreds of articles and reviews and continues to be active in the post-Soviet period.

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  • Наш советский новояз. Маленькая энциклопедия реального социализма. (Our Soviet Newspeak: A Short Encyclopedia of Real Socialism.) (Moscow: 2002) ISBN 5-85646-059-6
  • Перестаньте удивляться: непридуманные истории (Moscow: 1998) has been translated into English and was published under the title Stop Being Surprised! Vignettes from Soviet Literary and Other Life by Infinity Publishing in 2004, ISBN 0-7414-2208-5.