Imperia: coffee authors is
From Saturday, 31/05 Monday, 02/06 to be held in Porto Maurizio, the book fair Imperia.
For once again this time, will play the writer signing autographs (perhaps my mother) and hope that they are not bills.
I will stand to receive from the Literary Gazette anyone of you thought of my own: In order for any Eco
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As a tribute to the memory of a writer and a public man below here for you my interview, perhaps the last few interviews to Italian Druznikov who kindly gave me.
I recall with pleasure our exchange of mail, his manner polite and calm, his advice and availability.
remember that I envied the fact that he knew Czeslaw Milosz, now I can say it, but now I can say that I missed.
I had another interview scheduled, I'm reading his latest novel, and once finished I started to "harass" via email to talk about literature, as we did in the past.
Jurii Farewell, help us write more beautiful pages and to live by men!
Fabio Izzo: In your latest book there is not here is your literary soul is divided in two. You have broken down to fit the way you write the section called "American" and the Russian section. As a result feel more as your soul?
Druzhnikov Yuri: If I recognize both my hips as if in a different way. I spent the first half of my life in the Soviet Union and the second here in America. I had the chance to develop material for my writing by writing all the "my" countries. In my recent book, published by Barbera Editore, I realized that the people I met, both in Russia and the U.S., they were so funny or so strange that each of them, every one of those quirky personality were ideal for a special history but short-lived.
The stories told here are true with humor and particular selezionatoe from life as you can be for Italian coffee lovers, an exquisite blend of coffee.
FI: From the first part of your book (the "here") come out all the fears and foibles of the typical Western population gutted
fresh in your personal style as it is brilliant that can be compared to the gags in the film of Monty Python.
back instead in the literature, do you think the future is closely tied to western pills Murtibing predicted by Witkiewicz?
YD: As indicated by the great Polish skeptical Milosz, Nobel Prize winner for literature and my colleague at the University of California, the prediction of Witkiewicz directly linked to Western society but in my opinion not only that, the pills also concerned the communist society . If we mean the pills for my short stories I think would be an exaggeration compare a novel as important as that of Mitkiewicz. As pills, my satirical stories, give a healthy skepticism and help to better understand the world revolves around us.
FI: In the second part, the Russian (the "there"), is almost impossible not to notice your ability to represent a world sharply divided on concepts and ideas. What will be your second thought, the future of the Eastern Hemisphere?
YD: I do not want to neglect my being a witness to all that was the Soviet Union, a look at Thomas More's Utopia and George Orwell's 1984, there have pictures of what is plausible stato.Parlando the future, I would see Eastern Europe as rich as America, as a free and peaceful Europe such as Iceland, but for now I know the improbability of my prediction. In fact, the East is poor, subject to a means totalitarianism and aggression like the Nazis. The war in Iraq is a mistake because Hussein knew how to manipulate the fanaticism and now the Western world must be strong in the Arab world much more dangerous than the Warsaw Pact. I also think that an improvement for the 'Europe and the U.S. would be to use fewer soldiers, tanks, and intelligence services in that part of mondo.Inoltre will be good to capture Osama bin Laden.
I believe in a slow process Eastern Hemisphere.
If we look at China and India has to wonder if one day these two countries will help us to combat terrorism.
FI: Are you a Russian intellectual who works in the U.S.. This fact how it affects your writing?
YD: Here in America I found my independence, no one controls me in California on what I say or write. This does not save them from being targets of my pen. The percentage of silly being the same here than there. I do not have time to official data on the phenomenon of alcoholism, but almost certainly the situation is problematic both in the U.S. than in Russia, as well as for the homeless and other social problems. I am twenty years I live in the States now and this has given me the chance to see two different realities, my homeland and my adopted country. Russia is a police state, where the KGB has manipulated the country. I think that for stability and democracy in Russia are necessary for another 50 years or even 100 years.
FI: In my book (Eco-disposable) states, among other things the last century can be defined as "Russian century" because of the great events that have shaken the course (just look at the dates 1917 and 1991). Now as the power, who moved to America, literature has also followed the same path. Do you agree?
YD: In line greatest yes but I would like to add something. We do not know exactly how many deaths there were in Russia during the period 1917-1991 (60 million officially listed, but according to my estimate would be 90 million). The power has moved to America but art and literature are still flourishing in Europe. In Italy I have seen the Literature Festival in Mantua. America is the land of pop culture.
FI: On what project you working on now?
YD: I just completed a detective story based on a true story. Here, the documentation and research of the witnesses took me a long time. Italy is now being translated and will soon be published by my publisher
FI: If you feel up to give us some advice: what should we watch out for our future?
YD: First, your health! The longevity and quality of life. So, for example, that Italy is at the forefront in cancer research. This commitment, together with that of others could mean that in future people will be freed from this evil. On second thought, we could hear Pavarotti sing much longer.
FI: What is your advice for a better life in the monster world?
YD: Save our cultures and traditions. Keep the values: family, love and friendship. Represent an 'alternative to the noise of the TV commercial above us and frightens us. The individual needs of a niche where you can love your neighbor, reading, writing, taking photos and collecting stamps.
FI: In 2001 he received a nomination for the Nobel prize but have not won (and I'm sorry). Now, ironically, you have the chance to convince the jury to give her the Nobel.
YD: But what a soldier does not want to become a general! Solzhenitsyn wrote in his diary: "The award was given, and once again not to me," then later he was given. I jokingly tries to convince the jurors of the Nobel reading my pills "There is not here." If I can make them laugh even change idea.
