Lecture hall Direct speech begins its famous evenings of the cycle «Literature about me» in London. The first guest of Dmitry Bykov in the London project will be Boris Akunin.
Literature About Me is a creative evening in a modern format. Here the guest is undoubtedly a big star, but also the presenter is the acting person. Bykov both asks questions and sometimes answers them himself. He mastered the art of conversation to perfection, and watching how it flows is a real pleasure. And the theme can be anything! Creativity and life, life and love, love and death … But the conversation always begins with your favorite books, poems, authors. Notes from the audience do not go unnoticed.
The meeting with Bykov and Akunin promises to be one of the most interesting: for various reasons it was impossible in Moscow and only now, in London, it will take place.
«Probably, Akunin was very often disappointed in people. Positively, his whole life consisted of such deceptions — if all his prose is devoted precisely to tearing off all and all kinds of masks, to the constant transformation of the most charming and most reliable characters, as if, into notorious scoundrels.»
«… Akunin, after all, exposing the villains, first of all unmasks himself, and his books are quite frank. This is not only an analysis of Russian literature, not only popular philology, but also merciless introspection; Chkhartishvili is looking, of course, not a murderer, but the root cause of Russian troubles and local crises. And he finds this reason. «
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