Bookless in Russia
Bookless in Russia

Summary/Abstract: From the report in the daily paper Népszabadság about the contribution made by Hungarian writers to the 2004 Moscow Book Fair back in December, any reader might have been forgiven for supposing that this was all delightful encounters in the bleak midwinter, and that it must have warmed the cockles of the heart to be a Hungarian writer there. To mark the publication of a Russian translation of my novel Sinistra District, I was a guest over the several days that the programme was held, so let me, by way of a supplement to that report, recount several particular circumstances which, although forming part of the meat of the subject, were for some inscrutable journalistic reason omitted from the record.[...]

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