930. Aleksandr Skorobogatov

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Brad Listi

Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.8 • 554 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Aleksandr Skorobogatov is the author of Russian Gothic, available from Rare Bird. Translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. Skorobogatov was born in Grodno in what is now Belorussia. He is one of the most original Russian writers of the post-communist era. An heir to Dostoevsky, Gogol, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin, and Sorokin--the surreal line of the Russian literary canon--his novels have been published to great acclaim in Russian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Serbian, and Spanish. He won the prestigious International Literary Award Città di Penne for the Italian edition of Russian Gothic, which also received the Best Novel of the Year Award from Yunost. Cocaine (2017) won Belgium's Cutting Edge Award for 'Best Book International'. His most recent novel, Raccoon, was published by De Geus in 2020. De Tijd has called Skorobogatov "the best Russian writer of the moment." He lives and works in Belgium. *** Otherppl with Brad Listi is a weekly literary podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, etc. Subscribe to Brad Listi’s email newsletter. Support the show on Patreon Merch Twitter Instagram TikTok Bluesky Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a proud affiliate partner of Bookshop, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, where is this, Brad?
0:02.0	I love you.
0:05.7	Hey, everybody.
0:06.7	Welcome to the Other People Show.
0:09.2	I'm Brad Listy here in Los Angeles.
0:11.3	This is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers.
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0:35.6	So my guest today is Alexander Skoravogatov, author of the novel Russian Gothic.
0:43.2	You know, I consider myself be lucky to not being a conformist, to have this little courage.
0:51.7	I don't, I don't know.
0:52.9	I'm probably an idealist. I don't know. I'm a dreamer.
0:58.0	You know, dreaming is a huge power. And my dreams were way too big for such compromises.
1:09.0	I thought, you cannot write good literature if you are not absolutely clean morally.
1:18.6	That was Alexander Skorobogatov, author of the novel Russian Gothic,
1:25.6	available now in translation in the United States from Rare Bird.
1:32.3	The book is translated by Ilona Yasbin Chavez.
1:37.3	The Figaro calls Russian Gothic, quote, a great Russian novel in the grand Russian tradition. The book was originally
1:46.4	published in Russia in 1991. It has gone on to sell over a million copies. Russian Gothic
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