Meaning of write for the drawer | Babel Free

Definitions

To write a work for posterity or for friends that one cannot publish except as samizdat.

idiomatic

Examples

“It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers who wrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.”

“It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she had written for the drawer four years earlier in Moscow.”

“Since I first began to write I had to write for the drawer.”

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