Writing in Russia

Public Inaugural Lecture by Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor Victor Erofeyev on May 20, 2015, at Freie Universität Berlin. The Russian writer Victor Erofeyev will be holding his inaugural lecture at Freie Universität Berlin on May 20. His reflections will focus on the question of what it means to be a writer in Russia. Victor Erofeyev is the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin during the current summer semester. He is teaching a seminar called "Writing as the Inhuman Revolution." The inaugural lecture is public, and admission is free. Victor Erofeyev was born in 1947 in Moscow. He is one of the most well-known contemporary Russian writers and a critical observer of contemporary Russia.