Vladimir Voinovich

"Puss Riot and other sins" - The Putin system is taking on more and more features of the Soviet system. The big fear and paranoia returns.

L'histoire alambiquée et émouvante de l'écrivain russe Vassili Grossman (1905-64) et de son roman « Vie et Destin » (1980), un chef-d'œuvre littéraire, un récit monumental et épique de la vie sous le régime de terreur de Staline, un cri de défi que le KGB a tenté d'étouffer.

The story is about how a metropolitan writer, concerned about the “fifth point of his questionnaire,” instead of the noble or, at worst, rabbit fur assigned to him by rank, was given a “medium fluffy domestic cat” at the Literary Fund, and how he, previously quiet and inconspicuous, ventured to a “mutiny on a ship” confidently cutting through the waters of “socialist realism.”