A writer like your very french but for those who arent 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. The rare sex has no sarcasm i remain yes yes yes a way of you know legs is. 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 thats thats very. Good that you say that because ive 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 cant be the same its 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 its very its 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 didnt exist 20 years ago i dont remember seeing russians they exist with tables and chairs in the street taking time to drink a glass of wine so what im saying is the parisian 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 barrys 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 in a way if most cool people are sitting outside having a drink its a political gesture its resisting you know its its cool its fun and its nice but its also very important morally and politically its important to talk to me a little bit about how that resistance is protected in the literature in the modern literature i want to talk about French Literature the National Character because its something that interests me very much for instance the way the french perceive French Literature and the people outside france is very different like phrases destiny esky that everyone greets from i dont know paris to mexico city theyre 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 shell have 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 for french is you know im 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 valley and created a reaction so it doesnt mean im not thinking well 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 dont mean i dont say or i think your question is excellent but if you are you are maybe too intellectual for me or a little i truly is very simple those 2 yes good sometimes makes me cry i dont really analyze why. Its true that for example the last of the with all his contradictions you know hes 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 im doing something really simple to this isnt a very deep i mean summing up just to your skin one sentence its not really easy but. When youre 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 dont 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 routine i dont know but anyway. Its good when you ease a treat its a treat its not youre not the same at the end of the book as you were when you started the book. Now that youre editor would you please myself lately read yourself for the 1st time. I have to think about these take it because im always very very. Mean to myself so maybe i would say Heart Disease who is going to see our young buster know i mean i dont really love what they do more with would love to correct my old books you know and when i reread myself i am ashamed so i dont know if i would publish me but its important to be able to. Others when you when youre right you dont 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 a listened and so for me its important to admire young writers and new writers but for meit says im very very severe. You may find this question deep but i think its like a really important question because youre 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 thats what it was we didnt have media wouldnt 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. Richer in general is something that they say its a little too 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 you thought you were is. Its thing has to show you and tell you how to live and i dont like that i i think there is a mission in libya too but its not exactly that its 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 youre prepared for death of someone you love for example or you know catastrophes like that so and im thinking its not Self Development its 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 thats what my answer i dont know if its too complicated no its actually very deep youre telling me youre not deep enough youre actually neurosurgeon and there really is and there isnt a mission i see in 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 sort of of the writer its this miracle. This. Is very important i think and this is only in books you dont have this anywhere else and there were. Every day because people read less. To. Stay with us. In a world of big. Lot and its time to wake up to dig deeper to get the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell. Me to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight. For the truth the time is now were watching closely watching the hawks. There are growing indications the wests anti russias stance may be softening a case in point is the recent visit of frances top diplomat and defense minister or take for example the New York Times editorial calling on trump to better relations with the kremlin as a way to block china an important question remains can moscow trust the west and evil. Well you know that they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. I mean theyre in this small ball and sniffed at a hard pool of chips and its. Not been to. The level self to the big fish already 90 percent of the dot and it wont be common or. New concept 15 scoops 17 tons they do it several times a day with the big fleets you know you get an idea for an ocean and. We have to understand we cannot stay still and just. Be within this. Deal. Im doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. And were back with. You since youre saying that you know books is the only way to another persons soul or to your soul lets talk about the eternal life i mean youre saying you dont take yourself too seriously and youre 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 as writer scientist happened before you that science now is close to really changing mankind and this is he said never happened before the so the situation now of our species homo sapiens is that. Its 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 dont know life is the most old subject of you dont have to the 1st novel ever found. Maybe 35000 years ago is going to get mentions a story of a guy who doesnt 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. Meds 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 with that and you getting old gradually and seeing your kids grow. Or stopping or living 5 by 500 years. 1501550015 extension 0 we almost cant do it now because of the alamo was almost the stage even though there is debate about judd. But. Well i answer in the book that if its possible to save the lives of all the people i love and stay healthy and you know good looking then when not when no way refuse it but because we 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 its possible to double again maybe triple and maybe would we would love it. But what are the conditions what is the price to pay thats the question and thinking and doing didnt like the idea of actual immortality scary but if you think about immortality the obsession of human kind of being in a decision since forever thats the driving force behind everything good literature Philosophy Technology science i mean if we can be clear that its almost like theres no evolution its all that were like at different rates were not humans or more exactly you have you you said the answer the problem is if we succeed we will not be humans anymore and thats one reason why theyre 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 the men. 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 dont think i want i dont think i want i dont want to be. Algorithm or you know i dont want to be. So were talking about the Human Evolution but literature like anything else like a living organism also evolves and youre saying people are reading less and less you have 3 kids ive heard you say somewhere they dont read they chat with their friends on the internet mostly. Lives are ones because its very young to have to have portable phones and im going to fight im good i hope im gonna fight but with my 20 year old daughter i lost about her completely when she was 13 but this its scary like do you feel like youre part of a dying breed because people arent going to read anymore no she reads she reads but you know she doesnt read what they tell her to read and thats normal thats 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 theyre writing it is writing even though they use too much smileys. But so. I dont know if i understand this next generation and they think its normal its just because im an old guy but do you think about whats going to happen to books in literature for instance with t. V. And visuals like before when you meister at 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 its the same exact way that theyre going to say and the stuff they do is good its like it doesnt. Take it for a full it digs really good stuff its actually like nearly richard to feel like for you to replace a you 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 its not storytelling to tell only a story its much better to be breaking bad. Shows like that are so much efficient and you know there are such in fact game of thrones but. But you dont you hasnt 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 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 youre suddenly we sign and sony today you have access to something superior maybe superior to cinema and Television Even great shows its Something Else makes you feel very human and. So thats what im fighting for now but it must also somehow affect the storytelling now because its only a sense if x. Is late were doing this 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 its 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 hes taking notes looking at the clients looking at the cars smelling the. Smell of burning oil that is killing the nature around hes just taking notes there is no story its 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 another thats more of the racial rather than stories addition 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 hes mad. So youre 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 nova thank god there are but its its a difficult battle and i would i would choose to fight in another field. So you dont see yourself as a stereotype for some reason i mean for example no i dont think im 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 top models but so i never really bored an incredible story or you know something really completely original like like the great writers i love i know i know im not in this get to go home and it doesnt bother me but ive 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 its dead the way around lasts very often yeah great poets or great artists sad people that have the i dont know they had problems when. They were yongs to the girls didnt want to kiss them so they wanted to become a genius yes its true and then now that im mostly happy its a problem and ive 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 its strange is a strange thing to write i put myself in the states where i was when i was frustrated and angry other listened. So i go back to this to this. 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 im almost always all the time happy right now right and thats a good thing so if you had a choice to have leave that happy life. And never ever write a book because you cant write when youre happy or actually become unhappy to write i think on the 1st one i think id like to have been as of course i think the happiness no no no i dont want to go back through to the you know misery a 1000000 couldnt. But maybe when i go out and get really wasted its because im looking for this state and a friend i write very late when im lonely. And destroyed so maybe thats the solution to drink too much well it looks to me like this kind of perfect harmony between the taste so good luck with everything thank you very thanks for this time please. Most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the 1st one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest raid in truth to stand out in the music business you just need to ask the right questions and demand the right answer. Question. You are going to. See going to these records you know the false soldiers you can sleep. 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