
It may never achieve the acclaimed status of Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We or Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita but, like those 20th-century satirical masterpieces, a novel about a zombie apocalypse in Moscow has earned the wrath of Russian censors. In a sign of the intensifying crackdown on artistic creativity under Vladimir Putin, prosecutors have demanded that Ivan Filippov’s book Mouse should be withdrawn from sale in Russia on the grounds that it threatens public order.
它可能永远无法达到叶甫盖尼•扎米亚京(Yevgeny Zamyatin)的《我们》或米哈伊尔•布尔加科夫(Mikhail Bulgakov)的《大师与玛格丽特》所享有的声誉,但像那些20世纪的讽刺杰作一样,一本关于莫斯科僵尸启示录的小说已经招致了俄罗斯审查机构的愤怒。在弗拉基米尔•普京领导下对艺术创作的打压日益加剧的迹象下,检察官要求撤销伊万•菲利波夫(Ivan Filippov)的《老鼠》一书在俄罗斯的销售,理由是它威胁到公共秩序。