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Victor Pogostin

Victor Pogostin is a native of Moscow and a graduate of the Moscow State Institute for Foreign Languages’ School of Translators. He has worked for the Soviet Trade Mission in India and taught a course in Russian language and culture at the Aligarh Muslim University.

Victor’s doctoral dissertation focused on Ernest Hemingway’s non-fiction. While employed at the USSR’s Academy of Sciences, he worked as a freelance author and translator for publications throughout the Soviet Union. He has written introductions and commentaries for many books by North American authors, including Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck. He has continued an active literary career after relocating to Canada in 1993.

“An Expat Goes Home” enables readers to comprehend with sympathy the author’s recollectipon of experiences and friendships in the Moscow of his youth as well as those of a return visit many years after his emigration to Canada.

The common currency seems to consist not only of rubles but also of dollars, and it hardly seems to matter whether they are Canadian or American. But luxuries also abound in the city. The economics moral seems to be summed up in an experience of the author’s that creates a striking image: it is perfectly okay to install opulent Italian toilets and washroom facilities; just make sure they’re connected to the plumbing.

Victor Pogostin’s bio sketch can be found here.

Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Victor. We’re glad to have you with us!