42 | Russian author Zakhar Prilepine's political rifts
Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin (Zakhar Prilepine) poses during a photo session in Paris on March 17, 2018. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)
Le Regard Libre N° 77 - Ivan Garcia
Dossier «The arts in the face of Russian power»
Writer, journalist and soldier, Zakhar Prilepine is one of Russia's most critically acclaimed contemporary authors. Nostalgic for the USSR, opposed to government dictatorship and a nationalist who went to war alongside Russian secessionists in the Donbass, he represents a generation torn between a grandiose past and a gloomy present. Portrait of a writer at odds with Russian power.
En 2002, sur la place du théâtre Bolchoï de Moscou, l’organisation des jeunesses poutiniennes «Ceux qui marchent ensemble» organise un autodafé pour brûler les livres de l’écrivain russe Vladimir Sorokine. Trois ans après la publication de son roman Le Lard bleu, l’auteur est traîné en justice par l’un des membres de cette organisation pro-Poutine et condamné pou
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