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Here's what he wrote about Vitaly Volovich Victor Astafev :

He's in the figures of the English and flamantsam seems to me more an Englishman and Flemish than the English themselves and the Flemings . Maybe this is just a "trick" , so be it , if it proves the sincerity and greatness of art, and most importantly - in its vision , its penetration into the great literature, which he dared to touch it, to understand it as an artist. Rethink , without repeating any of the giants that have come into contact with the masterpieces of world literature before. This requires not only special , daring talent , we need character , tenacity , perseverance , the ability to create his own artistic world .