Literature

42 | Russian author Zakhar Prilepine's political rifts

ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Ivan Garcia | 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 is the representative of a generation torn between a grandiose past and a morose present. Portrait of a writer at odds with Russian power.

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