Foreign Literature: Mysteries and Demons

At the Lecture Hall "Direct Speech," outstanding scholars, writers, actors, and science popularizers present every day. Their assessments and opinions often differ from the established viewpoint — ideas, thoughts, and discoveries are born right before the listeners' eyes.
For ten years... now, the calling card of "Direct Speech" has been Dmitry Bykov's lectures on literature. Bykov trains us to turn to familiar texts for advice and consolation, to seek and find answers to the challenges of a new day within them. His lectures are always events. Now they are available in book format.
"Foreign Literature: Mysteries and Demons" is Dmitry Bykov's third book of lectures. William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Maupassant, Erich Maria Remarque, Agatha Christie, Joan Rowling, Stephen King…