Bathing in the pond in the rain. Sonders J.

The secrets of literature are easy to reveal - just turn the page.

Chekhov. Turgenev. Tolstoy. Gogol.

Seven stories of famous Russian writers - seven essays that George Saunders created on the basis of a course that he has been reading at the University of Syracus for many years.

“When you read these authors, they change you, and the world around it seems to begin to express another, much more interesting, history - a story in which a significant role can be played and where the reader is responsible.”

After all, to study literature is to study life itself.