Abram Terts is the literary pseudonym of Andrei Donatovich Sinyavsky (1925-1997), a philologist and novelist, an employee of the IMLI in Moscow and a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris, the author of the books “Walking with Pushkin”, “In the Shadow of Gogol", “Ivan the Fool”, the novella “Lyubimov” and the novel “Good Night".The book “The Voice from the Choir" is compiled from observations, thoughts and scenes recorded by Sinyavsky in the Mordovian camps, where he spent more than five years. Discussions about Pushkin, Shakespeare and Akhmatova, about faith, culture and nature are naturally combined with the “masterpieces” of camp folklore and portraits of local characters. The author's voice is interspersed with a Chorus — the polyphonic noise of the camp.Art is a meeting place. The author with the object of love, spirit with matter, truth with fantasy, pencil lines with the outline of the body, one word with another, etc. Meetings are rare and unexpected. From joy and surprise: 'you? "You?""Both sides go berserk and throw up their hands.Pushing a wheelbarrow with sawdust or walking with a crowd of prisoners through the zone, Sinyavsky thought about what he always thought about when he was a famous literary critic. Images of the lightest glides of Pushkin's verse, the love game of the young poet's creativity - fluttering ladies' legs, corsages with their powdered contents — appeared among the torn pea jackets and frenetic turns of camp speech.Igor Golomshtok