Replica 2020. Welbek M.

“Replicas 2020” - a collection of articles and interviews of Michel Welbek for three decades. The author of the planetary bestseller “elementary particles”, “platform”, “humility”, “serotonin” speaks here in the first person. In these deep, sharp, sarcastic texts, he gives an assessment of the events that take place, formulates his conclusions and forecasts for the future.

The book includes his worldview and political essays, notes about film and literature, conversations about his own creativity, The answers to the attacks of critics, as well as thoughts about writers and philosophers, about religion, on feminism and self -isolation, about jazz and Donald Trump, about euthanasia and tourism. In France, the “replicas” of Wel-bek published three times in separate books (1998, 2011, 2020), each time replenished with new performances by the writer in the media. Articles from the first two were published in Russian in the collections “Peace as a supermarket” (2003) and “Humanity, Stage 2” (2011).

This publication includes completely three collections representing views on modern The world of one of the most read French authors.