''Fantastic Stories'' (russian: Фантастические повести, translit=Fantasticheskiye povesti) is a collection of six short stories written by Soviet author

Andrei Sinyavsky Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (russian: Андре́й Дона́тович Синя́вский; 8 October 1925 – 25 February 1997) was a Russian writer and Soviet dissident known as a defendant in the Sinyavsky–Daniel trial in 1965. Sinyavsk ...

under the pseudonym Abram Tertz between 1955 and 1961, first published by Pantheon Books in 1963. The stories are titled "At the Circus", "The Graphomaniacs", "The Tenants", "You and I", "The Icicle", and "Phkents". All of the fantastic tales are written in the style of "fantastic realism", which combines phantasmagorical art with

socialist realism Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is ch ...

. Dalton, Margaret. Andrei Siniavskii and Julii Daniel: Two Soviet "Heretical" Writers.

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