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Lara Vapnyar in The New Yorker
lara vapnyar (1971-) is a russian-born author of momentary stories living in the united states.
Born in 1971, she moved in 1994 from Moscow to Brooklyn, New York with her husband. (She currently lives on Staten Island.) Knowing little English other than a few phrases she learned in school, Vapnyar quickly picked up the language and was soon writing in it, her first English-language work being published in 2002.
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Her stories tread what is for her familiar territory the lives and small ambitions of Russian emigres living in New York. They have been published in such magazines as The New Yorker and Harpers Magazine, as well as in a collection, There are Jews in My House. She has also published a novel, Memoirs of a Muse.
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Her work is generally identified as typically Russian, dealing intimately with the daily-life concerns of its subjects with fatalistic humor.
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Mother Russia
by Field Maloney November 1, 2004
this week, lara vapnyar’s short story “memoirs of a muse” appears in the publication and here online (see fiction). here, with the fashionable yorker’s field maloney, vapnyar discusses moving to america, and her russian literary crushes.
FIELD MALONEY: You were born in Russia, and you started writing only after you emigrated to America, in 1994, when you were twenty-two. What was your life here like before you started writing? What inspired you to write fiction?
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LARA VAPNYAR: I was miserable the first five years after the immigration. I missed Russia terribly, I couldn’t connect with American culture, I couldn’t find a place for myself in this country. All of my Russian friends and relatives found nice, respectable jobs very quickly and progressed at them, while I was failing at everything that I attempted to do, from teaching elderly immigrants how to speak English to learning computer programming. I avoided my Russian friends, because I was embarrassed to be around them. Loneliness and desperation made me turn to fiction.
Is it true that you learned English largely through watching soap operas?
I thought I’d start with reading in English books that I knew and loved in Russian, like Jane Austen’s novels, but in English I couldn’t appreciate the humor, the insights, or the beauty of the language; in English they seemed heavy, annoying, and boring. Reading romances and watching TV soap operas, on the other hand, was very enjoyable. The dialogue was so limited and the plots so predictable that I was always ahead of the authors, which made me feel pleasantly sarcastic and smart.
You compose in English, rather than in Russian. Why?
I never expected to become a writer in any language. Until a few years ago, I simply couldn’t imagine that I’d ever attempt to write fiction, and, having come to the U.S. ten years ago without strong knowledge of English, I didn’t expect that I’d be able to write fluently in English. Somehow these two impossibilities cancelled each other out, and I began writing fiction in English. I think I’d be more intimidated if I wrote in Russian.
Why more intimidated?
I don’t see my mistakes in English.
You live with your husband, your children, and your mother in Staten Island, and you juggle writing with family responsibilities. How did your family react to your writing successes?
I used to think that I was a very unbalanced person—easily excited, easily depressed, extremely imp
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