NOTES OF A NON-CONSPIRATOR by Etkind, Efim (translated by Peter France) - 1978

Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1978. (xi) 265 pp. First translated edition. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine. Light wear at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. In 1974, Etkind was forced to leave Russia; this book is an exploration, sometimes moving, sometimes grimly comic, of some of the realities of Soviet intellectual life. The Chapters are: On the Eve - 23 April 1974: Digression concerning Cyclists and Modern Barons; Digression concerning Stage Management. Drama in Four Acts: The Civic Execution - 25 April 1974: Act One: Digression concerning Publicity; Act Two: Digression concerning an Old Professor; Act Three: Digression concerning the Year 1949. Justice 1963 - 1964: Digression concerning Unbridled Form. The Sentence Affair 1968 - 1974: A Bitter Digression; Linguistic Digression: Prorabotka: Digression on How not to Live by Lies; Digression concering Gulliver and the Lilliputians. Talking about Poetry 1973 - 1974: Digression concerning Dignity and Freedom of Choice; Digression concerning Cannibals. The Noose Tightens - 10 April and 25 June 1974: Digression on the Theme: For Whose Benefit. Struggle for Life June - October 1974: At Home: Digression concerning Revolutionary Sense of Justice; Lyrical Digression: Mayakovsky Writers' House; Digression concerning State Security; Abroad: Digression concerning Emigration; and Coda; followed by Appendix One: Second hearing of the Case against I. Brodsky; and Appendix Two: Letter to the Executive of the Leningrad Writers' Organization and Executive of the Writers' Union of the RSFSR.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.