A Russian star's guilty exile in Paris anchors Sergueï Shikalov's new novel
In "Grenouille," the Russian-French writer follows an exiled celebrity confronting her own passivity toward Vladimir Putin's regime, according to Le Monde.
Sergueï Shikalov, a Russian writer who writes in French, has published a new novel titled "Grenouille," reviewed by Le Monde as part of this year's rentrée littéraire coverage.
According to the newspaper, the book centers on a Russian celebrity living in exile in Paris, and turns on her painful self-examination: how much she has been passive, or even complicit, in the face of Vladimir Putin's regime.
Le Monde describes the novel as a profound work, though the available material does not detail its plot beyond this central meditation on guilt and distance from home.
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