Is Soviet literature returning?

The recording of this conversation was made in October 20016 At one of the creative seminars at the Literary Institute : students wrote an essay on lectures on Russian literature Vladimir Nabokov. The polemic arising between the teacher and students went far beyond the boundaries of the designated topic.

- It is very important for you the concept of “write for you”, but what is the restriction then, if the meaning of creativity is to write?

Fake is not your own. This is not so understood, disproportionate, to which there is no painful attitude. There is an external attitude, most likely. External attitude is always associated with a certain pose. This pose - one or another author in the literature - I would also call it false. Fake is the concept of musical. But in literature it is felt in the same way as in music. Not the word, if not the same intonation, not from the soul. Everyone has life experience, but you need to get involved with it, it must be understood, it must be extracted. And in general, this is not a tram that rushes without stops - your life. There were many stops, each with something memorable.