“If we stay strong, Ukraine will not only survive but become a better place.” A conversation with the Ukrainian author and Army private Artem Chapeye, whose short story appears in this week’s issue.
,” several years ago—in 2018, I think. What inspired it at the time? Had you been travelling around Ukraine in the way that your characters do?
I do love travelling to non-touristic places in Ukraine, like random small towns or industrial cities or villages near borders, although this happens less often than I’d like. The “the” article is considered politically incorrect, a reference to the times when Ukraine was part of the tsarist Russian Empire. I used it as code for the “real” Ukraine, as opposed to the façade. In fact, this idea comes from English literature—D. H. Lawrence’s phrase “the England that was really England,” in “This “the Ukraine,” which lies beyond the façade of tourism , feels like the raw reality of the country.
On the first morning of the Russian invasion, my wife, Oksana, and I were woken up by the sound of bombs. We woke up our kids and started moving as far from the border as we could. Luckily, we had grab packs ready, as advised. Psychologically, I think it was important to turn myself from a “victim” civilian into an “agent” resisting the oppression.
Can you, from where you are now, see a possible positive end to the invasion? Can you imagine a return to “normal” life—a time when you are a writer, only, and not a private? Do you think your writing will be changed?
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