Daniel and Everyone Else

7 hrs. 30 min.

Language Russian

Author Irina Uvarova

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

In the Ivan Limbakh Publishing House, Irina Uvarova’s book “Daniel and All, All, All” has been released. The memoirs are devoted to the tragic life of Uvarova’s husband, the famous Soviet writer Yuli Daniel, who together with Andrey Sinyavsky was accused of writing and transmitting for publication abroad works that “defamed the Soviet state and social system.” As a result of the court case known as the “Sinyavsky and Daniel trial,” the authors were sentenced to seven and five years in camps, respectively. Uvarova tells how the trial went, what the atmosphere was in society at that time, and in the intellectual circles to which she and Daniel belonged. She recalls Boris Birger, Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Voinovich, Sergei Paradzhanov, Mikhail Bakhtin, and many other key figures of the flourishing culture of the 60s–80s.

Irina Uvarova is a stage director, art historian, and theatre theorist. In the mid-1980s, together with Viktor Novatsky, she helped revive the traditional puppet nativity scene (the “puppet vertep”); in the early 1990s, she founded the journal “Kukart” and made a significant impact on the aesthetics of modern puppet theatre.