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, : Was that the book that caused all the protests in Moscow?
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: I thought that was great that a book can cause such emotion, which means it must be a great book.
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: Sorry to hear that… Any book that causes people to think is a good book.
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: Obviously you’ve been redeemed because you achieved international acclaim. So your work has been recognized.
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: Why do you think it has not been translated into English but those languages?
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Marian Schwartz, translator: I also have an opinion why. It would be a killer to translate because he’s got language that involves Chinese and English so there’s a good deal of language inventiveness.
: Which of your works is your favorite; you are the most proud of?
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: Nabokov! – Bulgakov! – Dostoyevsky! – Pelevin! – Gogol is good!
: I am just curious to know. I believe that you have written screen plays as well as novels. How do you see the difference between the two? Which requires more of you?
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: I was wondering if you could say anything about other writers who had also come under attack…if you see any sort of connection between your work and theirs, other than the fact that they’ve been attacked.
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: What kind of implications do you see censorship in Russia having on Russian society?
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: I’ve read an article recently in the New-Yorker and it was talking about Vladimir Putin and a string of assassination of journalists in Russia, Anna Politkovskaya, I think, one of them. And I guess I’m wondering if that’s what you’re referring to.
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Marian Schwartz: You won’t see one here either!
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Marian Schwartz: He is selling somebody else’s book! ()
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MS: «Glamorama» by Bret Ellis.
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