7/7/2023 0 Comments Yevgeni zamyatin![]() This campaign has continued, on different pretexts, to this day, and it has finally resulted in a situation that I would de scribe as a sort of fetishism. 1, 1920) in a form that many people found to be sharp and offensive, and this served as a signal at the time for the launching of a newspaper and magazine campaign against me. I raised this problem in one of my articles (published in the journal Dom Iskusstv, No. ![]() Specifically, I have never concealed my attitude toward literary servility, fawning, and chameleon changes of color: I have felt and I still feel that this is equally de grading both to the writer and to the revolution. I know that I have a highly inconvenient habit of speaking what I consider to be the truth rather than saying what may be expedient at the moment. I know that among the works I wrote during the first three or four years after the revolution there were some that might provide a pretext for attacks. I have no intention of presenting myself as a picture of injured innocence. Yet the situation that has come about is such that I cannot continue my work, because no creative activity is possible in an atmosphere of systematic persecution that increases in intensity from year to year. ![]() ![]() To me as a writer, being deprived of the opportunity to write is nothing less than a death sentence. ![]() The author of the present letter, condemned to the highest penalty, appeals to you with the request for the substitution of this penalty by another. ![]()
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