It has been two years on February 24 since the war in Ukraine began.
On this occasion,
Le Figaro
spoke with Iegor Gran, writer and essayist born in 1964 in Moscow and son of the Soviet dissident Andreï Siniavski, to discuss his latest text published by the review
Kometa
, a new quarterly publication devoted to the East.
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LE FIGARO. -
In the last issue of
Kometa
, you wrote a text,
Mordor
, which talks about the
“literary capillarity of a work of fiction towards real life”
.
This work is The
Lord of the Rings
, by JRR Tolkien.
How did Ukrainians appropriate the imagination of this fantastic work published in 1954?
Yegor GRAN. -
This dates back to 2014: from the occupation of Crimea, the Russian army is described as an army of orcs, Russia is called
“Mordor”
, and Vladimir Putin is Sauron.
We find these
“memes”
all over the internet.
By searching for
“Russian orcas”
, you come across a plethora of parodies where the orcas in the film…
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