The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
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The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
His first long novel, 1996’s Chapaev and Void (published in the US as Buddha’s Little Finger and in the UK as The Clay Machine-Gun) has been called the first post-Soviet Russian literary bestseller.
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia – and then came to symbolise its moral decay
this slipperiness was an asset rather than a liability.