Meet-the-artist event with Alexander Arkhangelsky

Alexander Arkhangelsky is a Russian literary critic, a publicist, a writer, the professor of the Higher School of Economics. He is also the author and presenter of many television projects; currently he hosts the TV show "Meanwhile" on the TV channel "Culture".

Alexander is the author of a number of novels - "Bureau of Verification", "1962. The epistle to Timofey", "The price of cutting off", etc. and several textbooks on Russian literature.

This year the publishing house "AST" issued a new book from the series "Happy life" about the French slavist "Russophile. The life story of Georges Niva, told by himself."

"The buzz is when you finish a great job ... it’s not serving society or the truth, but serving the book that you have been writing for many years. There’s a Bosch picture where the authors are sticking out of their books, and the books are gradually, munching, swallowing them. But at some point you break it. And every next page is a liberation, you break out, you breaks through the bottom and go out. This, of course, is pure happiness and it can be compared to nothing."