Summer in Baden-Baden

"[W]hy is this vertiginous little book such an important addition to the canon? Because, like the work of so many other writers who toiled beneath the yoke of Soviet history--Mayakovsky, Babel, Pasternak, Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Tsvetaeva, Voinovich, Aksyonov--Leonid Tsypkin's novel affirms precisely what we value in literature: that, in such prose as this, a mind is able to wrest grace from despair, truth from lies and, most miraculous of all, immortality from a desk drawer."Tsypkin, Leonid is the author of 'Summer in Baden-Baden', published 0016 under ISBN 9780811214841 and ISBN 0811214842.