The titanium will drown

As far as I know, there is not a single great disaster that would not be predicted, often even in details, and discussed in one or more literary works (Pierre Bayyar) The new book of Pierre Bayyar "Titanic" drowned is as fascinating and paradoxical as the bestsellers published in Russian: "The art of discussing books that you did not read", "The art of discussing countries in which you are not There were "and the business of the dog Baskerville".

This time, Bayyar assumes that literary works are capable of not only describing the present or telling about the past, but also predict the future. A slightly known fact was an amenable point for a convincing and beautiful hypothesis: American writer Morgan Robertson described his novel in his novel The death of "Titanic" 14 years before the failed catastrophe, which struck contemporaries, and the resonance of which has not yet been exhausted.

Bayyr gives interesting literary examples confirming the prophetic gift of writers - even if they do not suspect its existence. And this approach to books fundamentally changes their reading. Pierre Bayar (b. 1954) is a French publicist and philologist, author of almost two dozen books, a specialist in literary shock and psychoanalyst, professor at the University of Paris VIII