...Stiliana Milkova Iurii Trifonov (1925–1981) was a successful Soviet writer and sports journalist. He did not belong to samizdat print culture. But like other officially published Soviet literature, his works enacted an Aesopian game of hide-and-seek with the censor and the reader, whereby meaning...

.... If escaping censorship, as Kundera’s case bears witness, does not render the author infallible, submitting to it—conditio sine qua non of official lit- erature—did not necessarily make him a liar. Iurii Trifonov’s best-selling novel The House on the Embankment (1976), spotlighted by Stiliana Milkova...