I have heard about past elections: Some regions of Colombia are more moved than others – and, I do not know why, I imagine that the quieter regions of Colombia also have to be more moved by almost any other region of the world. That is how I imagine, rightly moved, Ukraine – yes, for once: one thing is not to pay special attention to today and another to live as if the present situation did not exist. In view of the facts, I know that I do not give much pain. But war events have increased their interest in this country. Of course, if the reading combines the current conflictive situation with the literature of the countries in conflict, as does the last work by the writer Marta Rebón, entitled El complejo de Caín, which killed her brother Abel.

Because the relationship between Ukraine - Russia, Russia - Ukraine is, in short, between siblings, said Nikolai Gogol, that a Ukrainian is no less than a Russian, and vice versa, and that if they are not the same, if it is simply complementary. Golgol also said that what happens to nations can be explained by geography. Hence, the mobility of Ukraine: situated in a border area, it would be a kind of pays de-frontières, a place where Asia and Europe collide, a privileged place to understand the world, polyglot and multicultural, which is reflected in the soul of cosmopolitan cities such as Odessa or Lviv. But for Russia, the role it wants to play in what has been called the Russian universe, a sovereign and European Ukraine, is a threat. With the invasion, Rebón moves away from the shelves that Russian literature welcomes. No, of course, until the loss of faith: Vasili Grossman, Lidia Chukóvskaia, Isaak Bábel, Liudmila Ulítskaia, “I have been particularly relieved by the reading of the life of Chéjoven, written by Irène Némirosvsky”. Written words are often well known to the Russians, as they can have more value than reality itself.