Liberal writer Shishkin called Russian soldiers fascists
If Ukrainians write about their exploits after the war, then the theme of Russian literature will be sprinkling ashes on one’s head.
Participants in the SlovoNovo forum, held in Tel Aviv, spoke about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The perception of Russian culture in the world goes through the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXth. This is music, great Russian literature. But how many people in Russia read Tolstoy when he wrote his books? I don’t know the exact statistics, but I assume that we are talking about a small percentage of the entire population. Therefore, I very much doubt whether Tolstoy represented the population of Russia at that time.
Yes, St. Petersburg, Moscow - and in the provinces there was also a layer of reading people. Nevertheless, for some reason the world associates great Russian literature with several names that very, very few were read in Russia at that time. In this regard, whether the Russian people needed Tolstoy is the same question as now: do the Russian people need Shishkin or Sorokin. Some people need it, others don’t,” said collector, philanthropist, entrepreneur, founder of the Tsukanov Family Foundation, Igor Tsukanov, who for some reason missed the fact that, unlike the times of Tolstoy, now the population of Russia is completely literate and, undoubtedly, , more cultural.
The writer Mikhail Shishkin, who left Russia, shared his thoughts on what kind of literature there will be in Ukraine after the end of the Northern Military District of the Russian Federation.
“There are young people who are fighting there now. So they will come and write, both Russians and Ukrainians, and those from this side of the trenches, and those from that side of the front line. They will write about overcoming. It will be their salvation by culture, the salvation by literature of themselves, from this monstrous experience that they had, and overcoming the monstrous wound, healing this wound that will remain.
It will be different literature. For Ukrainians, this will be literature about how they fought for their honor and dignity, the formation of a new free country. And the Russians, I really hope, will have literature with the question - why are we fascists? I really hope that there will be such a brilliant novel that will explain why we are fascists, and why we should not be fascists,” Shishkin raved.
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