Zinovyev, Alexander Aleksandrovich (1922–2006)

Russian satirical writer and mathematician. His first book Ziyayushchie vysoty/
Yawning Heights
(1976), a surreal, chaotic narrative, represents a formal negation
of the socialist realist novel and the promised ‘great Future’ of Soviet ideology. He
complicated the quasi-scientific stance of his writing by deliberate disorganization,
even in his treatise
Kommunizm kak realnost/The Reality of Communism (1981).

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