Leonid Tsypkin s novel Summer in Baden-Baden was hailed as an undiscovered classic of 20th-century Russian literature. The Washington Post claimed it a chronicle of fevered genius, and The New York Review of Books described it as gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving. In her introduction, Susan Sontag said: If you want from one book an experience of the depth and authority of Russian literature, read this book.

At long last, here are the remaining writings of Leonid Tsypkin: in the powerful novella Bridge Across the Neroch, the history of...