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by Anatoly Gladilin

Andrei Gladilin emigrated to France and has lived there for 30 years. This book is about his adopted country, its problems and fears. Also available by the same Ten' Vsadnika (2000).

352 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Anatoly Tikhonovich Gladilin (Russian: Анато́лий Ти́хонович Глади́лин; born August 21, 1935) is a Russian writer who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976 and has since lived in Paris.

In the 1960s, he was one of the most famous and promising young Russian authors, along with Vasily Aksyonov. In Paris, Gladilin worked for the Radio Liberty and the Deutsche Welle. Among his published works in the West was a novel, FSSR: The French Soviet Socialist Republic - a tale of a Communist coup in France.

Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gladilin is so full of sarcasm in this, life in Paris is depicted in the most derisive tone possible. You will inevitably get robbed and picked and cleaned out and be beaten here. Police will do literally nothing at best and if you try to insist you will be accused of being racist and fined or even jailed yourself. There's no way out of this situation cause the press is entrapped in its own political-correctness ideas and politicians are afraid to act cause press will attack them if they will. Main rule is not to resist robbers and thieves, surrender and give them everything, you have no right to protect yourself or get your stuff back, only they have their rights. The book is a big long rant about all this. I can't exactly say if all these things are true, but one question remains: if life in Paris is so awful, why mr. Gladilin is still lives there? (he does since 1976).