Russian Writer Evgeny Chizhov: Writers Should Stay away from Both Authorities and Opposition

... those authors who worries about how many copies I am selling: this is the concern of the publisher. In your speech at a writers’ convention in Yasnaya Polyana, you expressed the idea that, in order to find the truth, you need to transcend your own identity. Can this be done by immersing oneself in a different culture, like the fictitious country of Koshtyrbastan? Did writing the novel help you transcend your identity? Immersing yourself in something that is alien to you is not the key to expanding your identity or acquiring a new one, but rather the rejecting ...