‘Back in the USSR’
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2021

Speaking in 2018 of his longstanding enthrallment with Russia, French writer Olivier Rolin extols the Russians’ effusiveness and hospitality, and marvels about their country’s immense spaces, extreme weather, dramatic history and literature or, more specifically, ‘le grand roman russe’ / ‘the great Russian novel’. Reciprocally, Rolin is flattered by the Russians’ enduring interest in French culture, as manifest in the large turnout to a reading of Claude Simon’s reputedly inaccessible novel, L’A