The shadow of the pendulum and other shadows

In the book of a journalist and a writer who lives in France since 1973, conversations are collected with famous Russian and French writers, poets, cultural representatives, covering the last quarter of a century. And although in each case the focus of attention are certain aspects of their own creativity and worldview, everything is tightened to the invisible general denominator - Russia. Its relatively recent past, full tragedies and hopes, upshots and breakdowns of yesterday, "gray morning" of today"s day - the nerve "shadow of the pendulum and other shadows". This is a meeting of testimonies that complement the complex mosaic of Russian-French relations over the course of two centuries - from Pushkin to Solzhenitsyn.
Texts of conversations are equipped with the explanations of the author, photographs, as well as a reference apparatus