Lev LuntsLev Lunts (1901-1924) was a literary firebrand of post- revolutionary Russia, a dramatist, proser and polemicist, and one of the founders of the Serapion Brothers. His plays were banned, his defense of artistic freedom was denounced by Bolshevik offiials and after his early death all of his works were censored for the duration of the Soviet period. Most people in Russia learned about Lunts from a Party denunciation of 1946 that was part of the school curriculum. Abroad he was known chiefly for his articles, considered The most forthright plea for creative freedom to be found in the annals of Soviet literature. (Victor Erlich) Only in the 21st century have his complete works been published in Russia, so that now a full and fresh appreciation of his talent can finally be made. Thus, like Yevgeny Zamyatin, Mikhail Bulgakov and other suppressed writers, but later than all of them, Lev Lunts rejoined Russian literature posthumously and retroactively. Xenos Books has published his collected works in three volumes: THE PROSE OF LEV LUNTS (2014), THINGS IN REVOLT: THE THEATER OF LEV LUNTS (2014), and JOURNEY ON A HOSPITAL BED: LEV LUNTS & THE SERAPION BROTHERS (2016). Read More Read Less