collection that's a new project that's going to come out in 6 months it's sort of a compilation of french writers you're not a meat you're a producer or an editor of this thing and it's supposed to talk it's supposed to show the french way on eternal matters and i correct exactly what are they so matters you know it's a crazy idea is that russian writer famous. of to ask me to choose my favorite books of contemporary writers and put my name on the cover instead of theirs but no i will i will ask that my name is smaller than the name of the author it's just that we present my favorite novels of the last 10 years. so no voters about yet today about the the the world how it's changing so quickly and so we really. we're working on the list we're working on the translations

we didn't choose everything but it's very cloudy and i think it's a beautiful idea because we need ideas to. put closer our 2 cultures france and russia we're very close in the 19th century and now less crazy nations argue that much to crazy. we're getting the way in a good way we like to criticize everything relate to complain we're very subjective we like parties we like to go out we like seduction yeah you like beautiful woman russian men like beautiful women talk about but do i understand correctly that in this new book that's coming out it's going to be only french writers or i cannot tell you definitely because we're working but i hope there will be 2 american novels that i love recently but the problem is we didn't sign the contracts yes yet . so. it's possible that the books that i want to translate are already

sold to another publishing company so i'm asking because like to me and for many people who who know a little bit of french culture you are as french as they get as a character as a writer like you very french but for those who aren't familiar with the french literature and french culture i figured like you were choosing french writers in your book so that they would show the french way french point of view on life in general what makes in your own words french literature french says the language. well. the pleasure the fact that we like we like a certain way of life. not too crazy about working all day long but more you know taking time to eat drink. your own sex.

no sarcasm yes yes yes a way of you know we exist. criticizing the power or kind of powers not accepting taboos exactly exactly fighting for freedom. so you know that in this world that is changing so fast may be france is one of the places trying to resist. this change you know to stay to. have a certain quality of life that's that's very. good that you say that because i've been observing everything that is going on after challis and do after the bet that khloe and i mean when something like this happens no matter how safe you feel afterwards life just can't be the same it's like exactly can be the same but somehow french people just manage. in your face to just continue living the way

they lived like many other people would have closed down you know it's very it's very true is very interesting because you know most school is changing. is the 1st time i come since a few years and i saw a saw a real change because there was this huge city partying you know so everything was closed and everybody was outside it was very sunny the weather was beautiful and there was a lot of crowd into streets but not only because of these concerts but because of there are lots of terrorists outside cafes people who take a glass of wine sitting in the street this didn't exist 20 years ago i don't remember seeing russians they exist with tables and chairs in the street taking time to drink a glass of wine so what i'm saying is the parisian way of life

now is russian so this is cool and this is very good news because this is the way of life that was attacked on november 25th in in paris not only about that cologne but people just sitting outside having a drink. this way of life is considered a crime by some people who want to kill because you deserve death when you have a drink so in a way if most school people are sitting outside having a drink it's a political gesture it's resisting you know it's it's cool it's fun and it's nice but it's also very important morally and politically it's important to talk to me a little bit about how that resistance is pre-trained in the literature in the modern literature i want to talk about french literature the national character of it because it's something that interests me very much like for instance the way.

french perceive french literature and the people outside france is very different like for instance destiny esky that everyone greets from i don't know paris to mexico city they're convinced that this is a genius who embodies the russian psychology but for people at home this is a genius a guy with enormous talent who is just very weird and has nothing to do with national psyche and i mean really when you when you write books that you think are french or you choose your writers in your to be french how do you mean the difference between what really is french and the stereotype that people have french is you know i'm not really that clever because when they when they choose a book i just choose a book that made me laugh or cry or make me angry or just shook me provoked at the v. and created the reaction so it doesn't mean i'm not thinking we please the

russian or the french people i just react in a way that i think oh this guy is great this is great i want to translate it. transmits these virus to foreign readers why not but i don't i don't see or i think your question is excellent but if you are you are maybe too intellectual or for me a little it truly is very simple. sometimes makes me cry i don't really analyze why. it's true that for example. of with all his contradictions you know he's like totally tortured inside and he in the end he finds a sort of redemption for us french people who we we think all russians are like these tortured people that find a solution to their problems or people who do. too much or people who gamble too

much and finally maybe there is an issue because they find god for example you know i'm doing something really simple to this isn't a very deep installment i mean summing up just to your skin one sentence it's not really easy but. when you're a foreigner you look at russians like this you think these people they have many temptations of many kinds of money fame i don't know beautiful girls or you know killing yourself with drugs and alcohol but then the turn to something more beauty for which can be nature it can be family or you can be god or pretty and i don't know but anyway. it's good when you is a treat it's a treat it's not you're not the same at the end of the book as you were when you started the book. now that your editor would you would i hope myself lately read

yourself for the 1st time. i have to think about this take it over because i'm always very very. mean to myself so maybe i would say always these who you see are young bastard no i mean i don't really love what they do more with i would would love to correct my old books you know and when i reread myself i am ashamed so i don't know if i would publish me but it's important to be able to admired others when you when you're right you don't write x. nilo you always write from somewhere from the love of the great books that you have read when you were a child or a listened and so for me it's important to admire young writers and new writers but for myself. i'm very very severe. you might

find this question deep but i think it's like a very important question because you're a writer and this is your bread does this makes you leave in your family do you feel like books today and writers today are supposed to actually tell people how to leave because like in the old times that's what it was we didn't have media wouldn't have internet like you only had religious texts or writers so you would take a book and oh i should do these or i should behave like these are my problem solution is here what about now do you feel like what will be one books in general literature in general is something that they say there are 2 question in your question because. now there is a trend of you know of manual of self development you know many writers and many readers think that you do not you it is. it's has to show you and tell you how to live and they don't like that i think there is

a mission in little true but it's not exactly that it's when you read all those stories of millions of stories you tell you to know how to love how to accept aging how to behave when something horrible happens because you have read all those stories and you you know maybe you're prepared for death of someone you love for example or you know catastrophes like that so i mean i'm thinking it's not self development it's not a writer telling you how to live but you know another way in a strange mysterious way they teach us how to. how to live in a different way so that's what my answer i don't know if it's too complicated no it's actually very deep you're telling me you're not deep enough you're actually there. and there is a mission and i see in nova. it's because wary in

a world where there is a lot of images television your forn and nuts enough dime for yourself and when you read a book you turn off your computer your done no for your smartphone you turn of the t.v. and you are with yourself and with the solar of of the righto utes it's this miraca this is very important i think and this is only in books you don't have this anywhere else and so well now he's more and more stupid every day because people read let's play a clean i take a share break right now while were a back will continue talking to best selling french author of kind of a can beg me that stale of that's

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and we're back with. you since you're saying that you know books is the only way to another person's soul or to your soul let's talk about the eternal life i mean you're saying you don't take yourself too seriously and you're very critical of what you write but i mean the title the eternal life this is something that so many people before you have. just in simple words what have you find out about immortality that all this philosopher as writer scientist happened before you that science now is close to really changing mankind and this is he says never happened before the so the situation now of our species homo sapiens is that. it's scientists doctors in china in america in russia. everywhere working on improving.

us as. you know so this is new this is really very strange immortally. is the most. subject of you don't have to the 1st novel ever found. maybe 35000 years ago is going to get the story of a guy who doesn't want to die so and then you have jesus who talked about the term of eternal life and then you have hundreds and thousands of books dorian gray has met many scientists all over the world that are really actually working on how to make us live longer and would you want that for yourself if you had a choice between these healthy good looking happy with a family and if you have a new getting old gradually and seeing your kids grow or stopping or living

by 500 years. 150-155-0015 extension 0 we almost can't do it now because john coleman was almost the stage even though there is debate about judd. but. well i answer in the book that if it's possible to save the lives of all the people i love and stay healthy and you know good looking then why not when out that way refuse it but because we all were already have changed. in the middle ages we would be dead now after 25 or 30 you are dead now we can live 66070 or 80 years old so we have doubled. the length already we did it so it's possible to double again maybe triple and maybe would we would love it. but

what are the conditions what is the price to pay that's the question and nothing in the wouldn't like the idea of actual immortality scary but if you think about immortality the obsession of human kind of being in work decision since forever that's the driving force behind everything good literature philosophy technology science i mean if we can be clear that it's almost like there's no evolution it's all that we're like at different rates we're not human these are more exactly you have you you said the answer the problem is if we succeed we will not be humans anymore and that's where he doesn't bother you know no it worries me no no it worries me i like to be a human limited person with desires that are impossible to satisfy no no but. really when they when they talked with all these scientists especially in harvard medical school. i understood that if we if. to become

eternal we have to become partly robots partly mutants you know we have to become creatures like in. iraq or you know all those superhero movies then i don't think i want i don't think i want i don't want to be. algorithm or you know i don't want to be foundation. so we're talking about the human evolution but literature like anything else like a living organism also evolves and you're saying people are reading less and less you have 3 kids i've heard you say somewhere they don't read they chat with their friends on the internet mostly. little ones because it's very young to have to have portable phones and i'm going to fight them go i hope i'm going to fight but with my 20 year old daughter i lost about the completely when she was 13 because it's scary like do you feel like you're part of a dying breed because people are going to read any more no she reads she reads but

you know she doesn't read what they tell her to read and that's normal that's normal. but she does read and i think the they have a new way of using language and writing because they spend a lot of time on social media but they're writing it is writing even though they use too much smileys. but so. i don't know if i understand this next generation and they think it's normal it's just because i'm an old guy but do you think about what's going to happen to books in literature for instance with t.v. and visuals like before when jim i used to write 3 musketeers it would be one chapter every week and then people would wait for it like cliffhangers and then you have h.b.o. netflix it's the same exact way that they're going to say and the stuff they do is good it is like it doesn't take you for a full it digs it's like really good stuff it's actually like nearly richard. you

feel like for you to replace a you really totally and you know as novelist we cannot compete with you know such great work. so one. hope is that you do that you will find new ways to become interesting again and it's not storytelling to tell only a story it's much better to be breaking bad. shows like that are so much efficient and you know they're they're such in fact game of thrones but. you hasn't no other way to say to attract and seduce style emotions something deeper like meeting someone who has to same problems you have or someone telling his life with maxine on this to taking the dying. i said you know you have to turn off everything be with yourself sitting in a chair maybe with

a glass of old risky and you're suddenly we sign and solitude you have access to something superior maybe superior to cinema and television even great shows it's something else makes you feel very human and. so that's what i'm fighting for now but it must also somehow affect the storytelling there now because it's only a sense affect the language you if we read books to have stories we read books for something else one of the books i want to translate in russia is a. gas station it's called the gas station and for $200.00 pages you are only in these gas station and the guy who is you know a cashier he's taking notes looking at the clients looking at the cars smelling the smell of burning the toy that is killing the nature. around he's just taking

notes there is no story it's just observe ations of every day people are coming to this gas station and i think this is kind of the future of reach for novels more of the racial rather than stories are of the details you know and making you understand the world and look at the world look at ordinary things like they are not normal you know everything you think is normal is he's mad. so you're saying storytelling is so much better done now on t.v. that he should i think we know where there are things that still are incredible stories in. thank god there are but it's it's a difficult butter and i would i would choose to fight in another field. so you don't see yourself as a stereotype i'm sorry for you for example no i don't think i'm really a storyteller i think i do partly autobiographical books and partly because i get

sucked out of to make people laugh about advertising or about models but so i never really bored than incredible story or you know something really completely original like like the great writers i love i know i know i'm not in this get to go here and it doesn't bother me but i've heard you also say once that you know you have to be somewhat not depressed like on the down side to actually write a book when everything's going to just want to have a drink i hear you on that one. but out is it really like that though stephen king said that life is not supposed to be a life support for the art instead the way around us very often yeah great poets or great artists sad people that have a i don't know they had problems when they were young to do the goes didn't want to kiss them so they wanted to become. a genius yes it's true and then now that i'm

mostly happy it's a problem and i've noticed that. some of my latest books written when they was hoping are very sad and so maybe when i write now i have a happy life but when i write i become. depressed again it's strange it's a strange thing to write i put myself in the states where i was when i was frustrated and angry i don't listen. so i go back to this to these. this hate that they had inside my set and not hate but the rage the rage to to to to to put this sentence on paper. to imagine like if you have to choose because your sake almost always all the time happy right now right and

that's a good thing so if you had a choice to leave that happy life. and never ever write a book because you can't write when you're happy or actually become unhappy to write. the 1st one i think i'd like to have been as of course i think the happiness no no no i don't want to go back through to the you know misery and 1000000 couldn't. but maybe when i go out and get really wasted it's because i'm looking for this state and a friend i write very late when i'm lonely. and destroyed so maybe that's the solution to drink too much well it looks to me like a sign of perfect harmony between the taste so good luck with everything thank you very thanks for this time please.

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