42 | Russian author Zakhar Prilepine's political rifts

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written by Ivan Garcia · 10 September 2021 · 0 comment

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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Ivan Garcia
Ivan Garcia

Web editor at Le Temps newspaper and teaching trainee, Ivan Garcia is in charge of the Literature section at Regard Libre, where he writes regularly.