title: Être apiculteur dans le Donbass : Les Abeilles grises d’Andreï Kourkov
abstract: In Les Abeilles grises (The Grey Bees), a novel published at the beginning of February 2022 by Liana Levi, Kourkov paints the portrait of an ordinary man, Sergueï Sergeyich, a disabled retired civil servant, left by his wife and entirely devoted to his bees, which give meaning to his life: to look after his hives, he stays in the "grey zone", a no-man’s-land between the Ukrainian army and the pro-Russian separatists, where he leads a precarious life, without electricity, punctuated by bombardmen
journal: Sociopoétiques