From letter to literature. How a written word forms the world, personality, history

The modern technological revolution annually provides us with new formats and types of texts - from emails and emails to blogs and twitter, changing not only ways of distributing and reading literature, but also ways of creating it. At the same time, some terms of those that came into use recently return us to the depths of the history of literature. In a vivid, exciting form, Harvard Professor Martin Pachner explores the history of fundamental works created in four millennia in different parts of the planet - from the “epic about Gilgamesh” and the Iliad to the novels about Harry Potter, sets out a new look at the wonderful phenomenon called literature, and makes An attempt to predict her further fate and ways to influence you and me