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 like you 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 woman it's all 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 definitively 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 french culture you are as french as they get as a character as a writer like you're 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 ice ax says no no sarcasm i remain 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. 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 lake exactly can be the same but somehow french people just managed in your face to just continue living the way they lived like many other people would have closed down you know it's very 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 party 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 power way of life now is russian so this is cool this is a very good news because this is the way of life that was attacked on november 25th in berries not only about that but people are 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 you know where 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 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 protected in the literature in the modern literature and i want to talk about french literature the national character

because it's something that interests me very much for instance the way the 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 to me really so when you when you write books that you think are french or you choose your writers 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 a reaction so it doesn't mean i'm not thinking will does book 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 i want to transmit this virus to foreign readers why not but i don't mean i don't say or i think your question is excellent but if you are you are maybe too intellectual for me a little material is very simple it does too yes good sometimes makes me cry i don't really analyze why. it's true that for example i ask of with all his contradictions you know he's like totally tortured inside and he in the end he finds a sort of redemption and for us french people we we think all russians are like

these tortured people or that find a solution to their problems or people who drink too much or people who gamble to merge and finally maybe there is an issue because they find god for example you know what i'm doing something really simple to lessen a very deal i mean summing up just to get skin one sentence it's not really easy but. when you're a foreign you know 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 we can be nature it can be family or it can be god or putin 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 you're editor would you please myself lately read yourself for the 1st time. i have to think about these take it because i'm always very very. mean to myself so maybe i would say is this who is going to see our readers through buster 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. others when you when you're right you don't write exner hilo you always write from somewhere from the love of the great books that you have read when you were a child or other listened and so for me it's important to admire young

writers and new writers but for me it says i'm very very severe. you may find this question deep but i think it's like a very important question because you're a writer and this is your bread this is 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 they say or 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 stayed to there to 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. 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 literature but it's not exactly that it's when you read all those stories of millions of stories it helps 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 don't i'm thinking it's not self development it's not a writer telling you how to live but in a nother way in a strange mysterious way they teach us how to. how to live in a different way so that's was my answer i don't know if it's too complicated no it's actually very deep you're telling me you're not it been out here actually nourish

and i there really is and there is a mission a see in novels. because we are in a world where there is a lot of images television your phone. and not enough time for yourself and when you read a book you turn off your computer you turn off your smartphone you turn of the t.v. . and you are with yourself and with the soul of the writer it's this miracle. this. is very important i think and this is only in books you don't have this anywhere else and the world now is more and more stupid every day because people read less likely i take a short break right now while we're back we'll continue talking to bestselling french authors going to take baghdad stay with us.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to let it be an arms race in. spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. but if she warn you i do the dishes at the balls more than those jeans new speeches

she me. in the news i mean that is without infringing ball. a lot of you will see sawing during fuzzy fights about to consult the bill for the most called. the. cabinet 5 days doing it. in english to be a threat people who simply.

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 turner life is something that so many people before you have. just in simple words what have you find out about immortality that all this philosopher is 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 horrid subject of you don't have to the 1st novel ever found. so maybe 5000 years ago is going to. 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 frankenstein. you know many many books talking about these the only thing that i did in my little one is i 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 friend if you bear with that and you're 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 of. 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 no 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 or so we have doubled. length already we did it so it's possible to double again maybe triple and maybe we would love it. but what are the conditions what is the price to pay that's the question and not knowing and doing didn't like the idea of actual immortality scary but if you think about immortality the obsession of human kind of being in decision and 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 you said the answer the problem is if we succeed we will not be humans anymore and that's where doesn't bother you no 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 sparkly 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 another lives are ones because it's very young to do

and to have portable phones and i'm going to fight i'm go i hope i'm going to fight but with my 20 year old daughter i lost to better completely when she was 13 but this it's scary like do you feel like you're part of a dying breed because people aren't going to read anymore 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 you meister at 3 musketeers it will be one chapter

every week and then people would wait for it like cliffhangers and then you have h.b.o. nets. it's the same exact way that they're going to say and the stuff they do is good it is a good doesn't take you for a fall it digs really good stuff it's actually like nearly richard you feel like for you there's replace a 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 there would have such in fact game of thrones but. but you thought you has an another way just to attract and seduce style emotions something deeper like meeting someone who has to same problems you have or someone

telling his life with maximum honesty 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 think 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 he's 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 novas thank god there are but it's it's

a difficult bottom 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 to know such to make people laugh about advertising or about models but so i never really told an 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 is 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 it's dead the way around us very often yeah great poets or great out. such people that have a i don't know they had problems when they were young. 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 have 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 do this and. so i go back to this to these activists hate that they hadn't said and i said i'm 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 i'm 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 i think on the 1st one 1st i think to have been is of course i think the happiness no no no i don't want to go back to to the you know misery. but maybe when i go out and get really wasted it's because i'm looking for this state and of 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. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability very important. transition to sustainable prize board sustainability. more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely harmless. it. companies want us to feel good about the products while the damage is being

done far away this is something else this was the point in even on. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every thing came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told the shut up kill me and i see how it destroyed. any screamed at me and he made me come in and you graham my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like. women

who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished don't be offended by. had an almost 10 year career which i was very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. this idea as you point out the anecdotally cheney fired all the cia agents in the field because they were too sympathetic to the locals and he felt that was a liability in the major media spheres of washington d.c. they don't want those reporters those stars to rub elbows in the grate on the washed of the flyover states because they may become sympathetic to the working class they may become sympathetic to the to the disenfranchised of america.

medical use downs who leaked leak out to. me. and when you. look at the distance was more than a book called the but. still it's about seeing. there's. just too little.

6 pm from moscow the news today of the united states assassinated iran's top military commander in an early morning air strike in iraq provoking threats of retaliation from to run militias we'll bring you the latest tonight. other big news today the turkish parliament to deploy troops to libya comes in for strong criticism as israel and greece and now cyprus fear it will lead to a further escalation in the region. and continuing our rewind of some of the key stories of 29 t. the chance is there that in front of us remember that the tragedy that struck down cathedral.