"Иностранная литература" 03/1972

Description Your attention is invited to the third issue of the monthly literary, artistic and socio-political journal "Foreign Literature" for 1972. "Foreign Literature" ("IL") is a Soviet and Russian literary and art magazine. Specializes in the publication of translated literature. Founded in July 1955 as a governing body of the Writers' Union of the USSR. It comes out once a month, the volume of one issue is 288 pages. The editors consider Foreign Literature to be the successor to the Bulletin of Foreign Literature, which was published in the Russian Empire from 1891 to 1916. The immediate predecessors of "IL" were the Soviet journals "Bulletin of Foreign Literature" (1928-1930), "Literature of the World Revolution" (1931-1932) and "International Literature" (1933-1943). According to Alexander Livergant (editor-in-chief), in the Soviet years, "Foreign Literature" was a symbol of "non-existent liberalism in the country." For Soviet readers, the magazine was the only opportunity to get acquainted with the work of many major Western writers, whose books were not published in the USSR for censorship reasons. The circulation of "IL" reached several hundred thousand copies. As translator Natalya Trauberg recalled, the magazine was also in demand among her colleagues, who sought to cooperate with the editors of IL, since "there was nothing like it published anywhere." The writer and journalist Alexander Chakovsky (1955-1963) became the first editor-in-chief of Foreign Literature. Then the magazine was headed by critic Boris Ryurikov (1963-1969), philologist Nikolai Fedorenko (1970-1988), writer Chingiz Aitmatov (1988-1990), literary critic Vladimir Lakshin (1990-1993), journalist Alexey Wordy (1993-2005), critic Alexei Mikheev (2005-2008). Currently, the publication is managed by translator Alexander Livergant.