Cancelling Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel The Snow Forest was wrong – we should read more about Russia, not less 🖊️ KateMaltby via ipaperviews
Cancelling Elizabeth Gilbert’s novel The Snow Forest was wrong – we should read more about Russia, not less
The Eat, Pray, Love author’s fate is a reminder that if literature is not about the cultivation of human empathy, it is nothingElizabeth Gilbert has stopped publication of her new Russia-set novel, The Snow Forest, after criticism online In April, the Russian-born novelist Mikhail Shishkin published an open letter to an imagined Ukrainian. Shishkin leaves big footprints in the literary world: he is the only person to have won the Russian Booker Prize, the Russian National Bestseller Prize and the Big Book Prize.
He stepped up his opposition to Vladimir Putin in 2013, publicly refusing to represent Putin’s Russia at an international event, and has lived in permanent exile ever since, certain he faces jail should he return to his homeland., speak to his grief at seeing Russian literary culture co-opted in the service of militarist nationalism. Of Putin’s gang, he writes: “They stole the language from us. We spoke and corresponded with you in the language of great Russian literature.
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