“This is a war of annihilation and we have no right to lose it”: A meeting with Serhiy Zhadan, whose diaries from Kharkiv are already among the best that can be read about this war
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Felix Stephen
There is always a certain tension when you sit across from Serhij Zhadan as a Western journalist. This man gives ska-punk concerts with his band full-time Zhadan and the dogs. In his second job as the most important Ukrainian writer of his generation, he writes novels in which Western journalists take on supporting roles as idiotic onlookers who follow Ukrainian women and ask unsuspecting questions.