Listen now | Richard Wilson and Constantin von Hoffmeister talk about Wilson's experience as an American actor in the Russian film industry, life in Russia vs life in the West, Russian peasant culture, why Moscow is safer than cities in the West, ethnic Russians as an imperial people, the connection between Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky, pagan elements in Russian Orthodoxy, how Orthodoxy is related to Buddhism, machete danger in Nairobi, the short stories of Anton Chekhov, and other topics.
my mother was a working-class communist in Norway, she read Russian literature to us children, near the coal fire oven
I have forgotten the names of writers, but what you learn as a child stays with you, as a poet and writer this influence mirrors itself in my poetry, which I think is why I understand Putin he appears like in a novel that has no name but is planted in my childhood
He has done well in Russia
my mother was a working-class communist in Norway, she read Russian literature to us children, near the coal fire oven
I have forgotten the names of writers, but what you learn as a child stays with you, as a poet and writer this influence mirrors itself in my poetry, which I think is why I understand Putin he appears like in a novel that has no name but is planted in my childhood