The groundbreaking biography of Andrei Sinyavsky (1925-1997), which examines him as both a writer and a “hero of the times,” shows how this subtle and complex author found a place for himself in a society divided between heroes and villains, patriots and traitors ; how he, initially fully accepting the system of values and ideology of his time, then came to their denial, and how this denial found a way out in literature. The book by Eugenie Markezinis, based on a detailed study of Sinyavsky’s literary heritage, examines the question of how his works become not just a reflection of life circumstances and signs of the era, but the result of an active creative transformation of both. The publishing layout of the book is saved in PDF A4 format.