Vladimir Lorchenkov's The Good Life Elsewhere just came out from New Vessel Press -- a rare Moldovan novel (albeit written in Russian) to make it to the US -- and at the World Literature Today weblog Michelle Johnson has A Conversation with Vladimir Lorchenkov.
It's very much in the same tragi-comic vein of the novel, with responses such as:
It's very much in the same tragi-comic vein of the novel, with responses such as:
MJ: Are writers in Moldova free to write what they choose without fear of punishment ?And:
VL: Of course they are free, because they aren't published here. Besides, nobody reads Moldovan writers' books. However, it's cool.
MJ: Do most Moldovan writers write in Russian ?
VL: In Moldova, writers write either in Romanian or in Russian. I suppose 50/50. It does not matter, though, because their books are not read here.