Why couldn't they compete with American authors?
>>24955130Why couldn't you put it in the soviet thread?
>>24955130Because you haven't read them?
Brain drain and draconian censorship of media tends to kill the creative spirit of a culture. Anybody who seriously wanted to write in the USSR would have to leave it first, or risk being imprisoned or killed for their writing.
>>24955155Nobel prize for Literature status?Booker prize status?Pulitzer prize status?
>>24955170The Booker prize is for English language works and the Pulitzer prize is an American prize you dumbass.
>>24955187Okay, Nobel prize status?
>>24955188Also obviously not a neutral institution during the cold war (as you might be able to tell from the fact Solzhenitsyn and Brodsky won it), but despite that they still had a good amount of Nobel prize winners for how short the USSR existed: Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Joseph Brodsky.
>>24955130Limonov alone wipes the floor with your American author
>compete they wernt allowed to. writing isnt a job that benefits the state so the writers starved and died.
>>24955259I don‘t read authors who fellate niggers. At least with Americans that‘s a figurative expression.
>>24955287Absolutely not true, artists were well respected in USSR as long as they didn't criticize the party.George Lucas himself admitted that Soviet artists had more freedom.
