An entire generation of Russian writers have been living in exile from their homeland. Although today's "glasnost" has special meaning for many of these banished writers, it does not dissolve their experience of forced separation from their country of origin. In "Conversations in Exile," John Glad brings together interviews with fourteen prominent Russian writers in exile, all of whom currently live in the United States, France, or Germany. Conducted between 1978 and 1989, these frank and captivating interviews provide a rich and complex portrait of a national literature in exile.
Glad's...