The problem is not simply that these writers are absent from Parisian shelves. It is that we have begun to accept that absence as justified. In doing so, we risk joining the Putin regime in silencing the voices they want silenced. Russian literature has always mattered most when it stood against power. It still does. But now, more often than not, it speaks from exile. If we are serious about resisting authoritarianism and listening to the voices it silences, we should be reading the writers it has cast out—not pretending they do not exist. Сильный текст в поддержку представительства русскоязычного тамиздата на англоязычном рынке https://lithub.com/writing-in-exile-why-russian-dissident-literature-demands-our-attention/