Abram Terts is the literary name of Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (1925–1997), a philologist and prose writer who worked at Moscow’s IMLI and later taught at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is known as the author of the books “Walks with Pushkin,” “In the Shadow of Gogol,” “A Voice from the Choir,” “Ivan the Fool,” the novella “Lyubimov,” and the novel “Good Night.”
This edition includes early short stories and novellas from 1955–1963, first published abroad under the pseudonym Abram Terts, as well as the novel “Kroshka Zores” (1979).