An Inconvenient Place by Jonathan Littell and Antoine D’Agata, Russian edition
Writer Jonathan Littell finished writing his book on distorted and fragmented memories about the Babi Yar massacre and Ukrainian nationalists in World War II two days prior to Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. It became impossible to publish this text the way it was at the moment — not least because Putin’s propaganda started using these nationalists as one of the arguments to justify the actions of the Russian government.
In May 2022, Littell teamed up with Antoine d’Agata, a member of Magnum Photos agency, and travelled to Ukraine where he wrote a series of news stories. In November of the same year, he got back to his text and placed the events described in it into the context of the ongoing war.
The book, originally written in French, was published in Russian by Meduza in June 2024, under the title Неудобное место.
