Iegor Gran told us about it at the release of Z for zombie (POL, 2022), a pamphlet in which he denounced all the Russians walking behind the “supreme hypnotist”, blind supporters of the war that Russia is waging without complexes against its Ukrainian neighbor. A few months before the Russian aggression, browsing social networks in search of clues of an imminent war, by dint of “listening at doors” the writer had come across two beautiful specimens of particularly exuberant Russian women. Elena, a tram ticket seller in Perm, is increasingly critical of the regime. Svetlana, on the outskirts of Nizhny Novgorod, is a kindergarten assistant and seems to have sold her soul to Putin. Both are not stingy with their comments on Twitter and quickly become obsessed with Putin’s “special operation”. Through this Clandestine trip with two talkative women, skilful “telescoping of the trivial and the tragic”, the author gives us the true chronicle of ordinary Russia. Despairing and fascinating.
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