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cars a report on. how again the welcome to spotlight the interview shell on r.t. i'm old enough and today my guest is said to think. the next he won't paul says two thousand and ten is the year of france and russia since the eighteenth century no odd the european culture as influenced russia more than the french one i would seem still to be a case at least with literature but that's only one of the reasons why i guess

novels are so popular in russia what else what does he himself think of russia and is there still a place for literature in the glamour obsessed cultures such as russia pretends to be the famous french author is here to answer the questions. much of frederick baghdad has the reputation of being somewhat of a modern day liberty a man who indulges sometimes to excess from a privileged french family he works in advertising before finding claiming the tories with his ninety nine francs the books a pamphlet on capitalism and people's passion for consumption eight years ago frederick. decided to help the french communists unsuccessful election campaign returned to writing and produced several successful books one of them is about russia where the writer is a frequent visitor he says russia experience the feeling of eternity and only hear a song beautiful but so strangely like what else attracts frederick but there in

russia will spill the beans spotlight. hello fredricka thank you very much for being with us thank you have you know. well last year let's press the magazine single you out as the french writer particularly popular in russia is there any other country outside france that you're really as popular as as a russian. nineteen in france was popular in germany. in italy but there is no place like russia really it's the only country who translated everyone of my book and all of them including my and my chat with bishop. and all the little. every everything i wrote is leading in russia papers examination throughout the school thing yeah you often say

that ninety nine francs became popular in russia by mistake because of misunderstanding because of because you really tried to to to mark at things and the russians took it seriously is that true well i don't know. exactly why readers like what i do and if there is a misunderstanding then it's great i don't mind you know i think i'm just doing my job i write what i like and if people don't understand it it's ok with me but it is possible that in russia some of the young people. took ninety nine front as a guide to more and to cynical way of life. which i was criticizing making fun of you know it's just it's a colleague at u. of advertising and this was my life i see my life on the on the wall it was my life when i was in the ninety's as a copywriter in

a big american agency and i hated this job so i was i wrote this book basically to destroy advertising in maybe some of the young people read it as phony book and they love it and they want to work in advertising so it's crazy ok well people say that so that you like russia or you like being in russia you mentioned it and then couple of your interviews and that actually russia has inspired you to write the all school part of the week but critics say that this book is filled with well we're with western clee shares about russia so how does that add up with the fact that you that you say you like russia but you love but is there also a satire a mockery of russia what no it's it's a description of the new russia and the new russian people of the rich people. by a french guy who is a foreigner so he of course it's field of stereotypes and cliches if you come to

paris you will maybe if you write about paris you would say that the french people . buying a baguette in the morning and complaining all the time and the taxis are crazy and these are cliches but it's also true and what i just wrote in in this book called. in russian. the story of a french guy who is looking for the most beautiful face for an advertising campaign and so of course he's surrounded by beautiful mother he goes out in crazy clubs like i did last night and it's it's also true it does exist and russia has. to accept that part of the clichés about russia are the reality it is not bad well you don't you don't only find beautiful girls in nightclubs in moscow but here you can find a lot of russia today one of the works of our spotlight and today spotlights car tell you what you want about what out of the moscow to find out what attracts

foreigners in this country let's take a look at qatar and that has tory there today i'll try to find out what the russians think attracts boy listen this country and what keeps them coming back for more. of them over there i think it's because the cities full advantage of the streets give you a charge of energy. even when we must start feeling it down taking a walk in the streets makes us feeling great again. probably to unreal the russians so to see for themselves that we have no business in the red square to drink vodka and probably because we opened our country for visitors creates a recently and people are just curious to see a new country. we see on new zealand theatres we have a well developed culture you know people are quite friendly i think that means a lot and we have beautiful nature and russian hospitality per month before are you asking about moscow or rushing general because we are from siberia from brusk and

we feel a lot of foreigners on lake baikal and i think they're interested to see our nature which is way different than in their countries they like by call here. some of the . i think it's because of our girls and women right considered to be the most beautiful in the world there may be some other reason such as business school is also a piece of food but i think the girls are the main reason for example you're a very beautiful your eyes are very expressive and. you keep up with its business possibilities and wildlife so to speak. out about jealousy he's got a question for our guest. no they say you have a reputation of a hooligan is it more of your personal p.r. campaign you really this kind of person ok is it a reputation that you want to want to follow your one or is it don't know what you are really i don't know where it comes from i think this comes from the characters

in my novels because in all my books the heroes are untidy heroes and they behave in a very strange way and they are very weird they take drugs they go to prostitutes the dance floors are going mad all the time but it's not really my life i am more normal and that's why i write because i am too normal in my real life so i want to be crazy as far as i remember you were arrested for taking drugs in the center of paris so this is not normal i mean you get the rest of these things so you're all right so grams normally people go to the toilet yeah i do it in the street. strange i know but a agree with what this you know it's not only the beauty of of women who are trucks people to russia for example between france and russia there is a long history of mutual love and fascination for little at you and poetry so now there are good reasons to the beautiful nature of this so you know yeah sure

i've been tunisia need to do some peters but also you see. and it's really it's the real reason is to to be inside the russian classics that i read when i was young like dr zhivago for it what dr zhivago is great here it's about do you read some of the contemporary russian authors is there anything in russia written in russian today published that's worth translating into french for those of you know of course like like many of you mentioned some of the names that because they live in is translating well here translated is known so. i have a friend who is not translated yet. but i think it's it could be son because our people tell me he's a little bit like a russian myself so i would i would love to read him in french i'm trying to make him translated now but. because i think it's a lot of humor and it's important that people know that russian are funny you know

. well you mentioned the classics that you're like to russian literature while you also mention the young the young writers but as far as i know you mentioned that couple of times in other interviews that moscow. is one of your favorites well why is that one of the afraid is and do you think that vodka consumption is still the most remarkable experience for for for for you. i think. this. is it's really. a masterpiece because it's a little bit like. russian catcher in the rye you know the catcher in the right by selling a church it's a guy who is walking around the city and he does nothing but drink and he maybe wants to take a train but finally doesn't and it's for me it's very simple very very funny and

also you feel the sort of russia in this book and it's in a way an answer to people who criticize my book about russia and see it's full of cliches because if you read this if you have a lot of cliches well go whole is spoiled three leary you know is a romantic guy it's. clear goodness really wouldn't compare your thieves to. our school though i'd rather compare it to the ninety thousand friends because because. this. is a mockery well yes he is on purpose of creating a cliche yet out of this it's too much in syria he hears it that's what they do all the time i think really as i said in the beginning real life is boring if you write

books it's because you want to improve your life and make it exaggerated make it more than life bigger than life would life be right. yeah i think sometimes when you're bored you start to to to imagine things and you start to dream and maybe writing is fighting boredom and this is one of vodka really helps me. well says frederick baghdad area french writer and author that's here in moscow spotlight will be back shortly and while he still is here in our country we will have another fifteen minutes with him in less than a minute stay with us. extracting black gold is dangerous. but why demand pushes the limits to catastrophe.

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back to spotlight i'll going off in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is frederick bad bear their friend or third thank you thank you thank you to mess. with casualty well you say well though actually you say and you like to talk about it a lot says written in the russian magazines about about lots of fun you're having when you come to moscow you know your name is all around the glamour magazine is nightclubs. what about is there something else except having fun and that attracts in moscow a lot i know you're introducing your new book but except making money and having fun is there anything else you know it's not only making money when you promote a novel you have the chance to meet a lot of people who ask you deep questions why do you write these what about your childhood who are you really friendly and it will have no answers if there are no

answers about you but you know it's like doing a psychoanalysis for free and in a foreign country people don't know my image in france they have another image they think i'm somebody else it's really very relaxing and very rewarding for me i feel like it's a big honor to meet all these people and discuss during the day but also during the night because going out at night is not only to destroy myself it's to meet people and dog and sit down and you know for hours talk about lot of talk about the absence of god you know like why americans have so many shrinks i mean that it is these personal because they don't have enough russians to talk to exactly exactly the russians. helping me see you to feel better listen you know you once said that moscow reminds you of paris in the nineteenth twenty's is that true well i was not

unfortunately in paris yes well that's one want to ask you how do you know i mean but from when i read it what did you mean when i read hemingway or scott fitzgerald talk and henry miller talk about city where everybody is free and everything is possible and i think most schools now is a little bit like that that's why everyone wants to go there because it's like new york in the eighty's also it's a city where you have a lot of energy electricity people want to do things build things create new new companies and it's it's not only fun it's human behavior that is really positive i think do you really hate capitalism do you really hate paris paris is a little bit. dead right now i hope it's going to resuscitate do you know i lived i lived in paris for six years when i was in which younger and i visited it lots of

times but last year the first time in my life i went to paris in winter so loved it yes so you have to go to paris and i think there is so much better you know it because it does not as many japanese and russians are even even not as much french there because they're all way for for the council. says ok it's better power it's made out of the french is always there but you know the french we. prevent the grass is always greener on the other side so maybe because i was born in paris and raised in paris and it's been there all my life i prefer to move and see other cities you said about the grass and you know what my father always says it's he says dealing with people is like washing washing the. the went shield of the car when you watch the glass you also think that the dirt is on the other side when you start washing the other side you also you don't think that it's on

the other side where that's exactly the thing out ok now in other another quote from yourself you said that literature is a game and if a book is too serious it's crappy what so what's the purpose of literature that we turn to tame people i think it's important that you give pleasure to your reader i think so i think if it when i write i try to have fun myself if i have fun maybe the reader will have fun too i'm not saying every novel has to be funny and entertaining but i'm seeing the novels i like are full of humor and they have have a distance they have irony and them the best russian novels are like that you know check of what's really funny and i think people think a book has to be serious i think the book has to be ambitious which is not the same you have to have an ambition to sum the world in in a few words but if you do it with distance and you know cynicism if you do it in

a little bit spectacular way then it's more of a distraction and it's not a crime to distract people when you write but. of course chuck of maybe firmly but especially the show it's to me as a sort of chuck of is not always funny you know and not always funny and and also you mentioned you mentioned coffee mentioned got you mentioned for example dusty have skin your interviews and of which tolstoy oh i'm not funny at all although that someone's of what when they die finally kills the old lady this is funny but. i mean he had a choice up and he needs a sort of a homeless guy in a bar. at the beginning of crime and punishment and drinking together i think this is kind of funny it's a little bit like when i go in and disco and girls it's exactly the same except

it's in turn petersburg a long long time ago. today you said something different from what you've been saying for a long time you said that you know that that our society is going to prove there before for a pretty long time we kept on saying that you believe that that that the end of the world is coming soon that that that you really believe it up accounts so. do you think that it's going to going to get better i think or what i think i'm just changing my mind because i'm getting old and simple grow old girl and start to believe in god also you know because they have to do things that this is not the end so i am like that beginning and also i have a daughter she's ten years old and i cannot hope that it's the apocalypse i have to hope that it's not going to end but if i'm scared i'm still very scared. you were born into the bush family even me even interest to create

a family you know you've been sort of a holy ground for for for a pretty long time but as you say that you're growing older there isn't that mean that you're returning to a bushel way of life there that there's bourgeois mentality starts taking over inside of you oh my god. you know i think being a hooligan is very big you know all the sons of rich people are always like acting like bad boys it's really a cliché this is really a cliché of the boss. and i am i going to be a boring old man is a possibility i bought a house in the southwest of france i go there named leave a very peaceful and quiet way i make a fire and prepare the dinner for my daughter. i read my books but my books other books in my library so if if i see this on russian t.v. i'm going to disappoint all my readers i'm very sorry in fact an ore than

a wise man sitting on a chair going like this you know but but but but you do you do it sound. but then but then you do call the. russian girls that a lot of them are in the south of france when you're one family goes away you pick up it's all about how loud. it really. can now listen you took points. you took part in the french communist party's election campaign once it was very successful was a disaster why you know why because i was paid by jacques chirac to destroy the communist party. so now you do need to go the first part of the party. i was very surprised that they asked me for help they were reading the engine in france and they thought they were the new karl marx source of course i thought it was crazy and. they seem to see the new works with great relief for the russians so as you

are now did our friends go there only for the rights of that of the french so what happened is i did an advertising campaign for for the community candidate. and it didn't work but i still believe that the ideas of communities are going to happen if you look at since two thousand and eight what happened with this crisis the economy crisis is americans french and all the orcs in done countries are buying the banks and the state is ruling the economy now so in fact as you are becoming more and more capitalist we are becoming more and more communist it's really incredible. you mentioned when you when you talked about your your little house in the south of france. and the rocking chair and reading your books you said my what sitting in my love reading your well you said well not my books but what like like books about reading your own books do you think you will ever write

a book that you will be able to read yourself like sitting in front of a fire. i was scared that you will end your sentence and just do you will you ever write a book. i don't read my my own books because i. know them totally because when i finish them i have read them one million times so i don't know i'd never read them again. i don't know if i can be proud of my work is difficult for me to answer your question i i think the last one is really honest really sincere and for the first time i talk about my past so when you finish a book you don't you don't really read it you just give it to the you know just to the editor and then i like to listen to what how people react some people will hate it some will love it and i like them to see them fighting each other. i like to be

a conversation that's what i like but reading my own work is it's too painful. you are becoming a little philosophical or you say yeah you are changing but are changing and this is good this means you you will still be worth reading in the back thank you very very much and all the best to you thank you for being with us in just a reminder that my guest in the studio today was frederick big bear get a french writer and that's it for now from all of us here if you don't have your say and spotlight just drop me a line we'll be back tomorrow with more until then stay an r.t. and take care thank you.

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