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

... experiences. Where do your readers live? Do they read you in Central Asia and other post-Soviet states? Have you had any feedback from there? I cannot say much about this... ... 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... ... characterized by the absence of a solid identity — it keeps oscillating between the East and the West. Russia has what I would call a fluid identity, partly Eastern, partly Western...