“Power and Resistance” by Ilija Trojanow (Excerpt)

Published in World Literature Today

In the old days, an adulterer was considered morally corrupt. Bad man, bad little man. If it was someone from the Party, they’d say he’d slipped up. Unpremeditated, happens to the best of us. If a bigwig seduced a worker’s daughter, his comrades would clap him on the back. You rascal, you. And if one of the higher-ups collected love affairs like medals, he’d be commended for championing the art of seduction. Those were the old days. Today, morality is pegged to the dollar.

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