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Apr. 8, 2021 7:31 PM
“In 1930, Grigory Etkind was arrested in his apartment in Leningrad. Five months later, his son came home from school one day and asked a gray-bearded man, who was sitting on the staircase, ‘May I pass, please?’ ‘Fima, it’s me,’ said the man, using his son’s nickname.”
This shocking episode, in which a son couldn’t recognize his father after the totalitarian Soviet machine had finished with him, is recounted by Alexander Etkind in his book “Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied” (Stanford University Press, 2013). Grigory Etkind was Alexander’s grandfather; the son who didn’t recognize him was Alexander’s uncle, Efim Etkind, who went on to become a well-known scholar of literature and Russian dissident. ....

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