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The disease of our time is mediocrity.

— Alexander Zinoviev Interview with Jean-Jacques Lafaye (1991)

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in The 2012 Alexandre Zinoviev Birthday Book, interview with Alexandre Zinoviev by J.J. Lafaye in 1991 in Munich (trans. Jean-Jacques Lafaye for the journal Connaissance des Arts et "La Marche de l'Homme" (L'Harmattan, 2006)) , ed. blurb, 2012, p. 39

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