Surplussed Barrelware

…novels as Zatovarennaia bochkotara (1968; Surplussed Barrelware) and Ostrov Krym (1981; The Island of Crimea). His independent spirit had incurred the disfavour of the Soviet authorities beginning in the late 1960s. Because of his reputation and his involvement in the attempted publication of Metropol, an uncensored literary journal, in 1980…