My private Japan tells the story of the author’s travels in that country. Fusing fiction and ethnography, it offers a detailed and realistic account of Japanese living, simultaneously painting a strange, grotesque picture.
Dmitry A. Prigov (1940 – 2007) is one of the most significant Russian artists and a star in the firmament of the international avant-garde. His poetry has been published around the world. In the 1990s, he published several collections of verse for which he was honored by the German Toepfer Foundation.