Nevidimyye chernila: Zavist‘, revnost‘ i muki tvorchestva velikikh pisateley

Romanist i prepodavatel‘ pisatel‘skogo masterstva Khav‘yer Pen‘ya izuchil zhizni sotni velikikh pisateley i pisatel‘nits i rasskazyvayet maloizvestnyye istorii: smeshnyye, pechal‘nyye, schastlivyye, stydnyye i nepriglyadnyye. Zdes‘ vstretyatsya Lev Tolstoy i Vladimir Nabokov, Frants Kafka i Ayzek Azimov, Margaret Etvud i Zhoze Saramago, S‘yuzen Zontag i Charl‘z Dikkens i mnogiye drugiye. Vy uvidite lyubimykh literatorov s novoy storony, uznayete pro ikh tayny, strasti, nadezhdy i neudachi. Biograficheskiye fakty perepletayutsya s lichnym opytom avtora: issledovaniye protsessa literaturnogo tvorchestva on sochetayet s sobstvennymi vospominaniyami, balansiruya na grani mezhdu nauchno-­populyarnym esse i otkrovennymi, trogayushchimi do glubiny dushi memuarami. Khav‘yer Pen‘ya uchit nakhodit‘ utesheniye v literature dazhe v samyye tyazhelyye vremena: on dokazyvayet, chto radi schastlivykh mgnoveniy chteniya stoit zhit‘, a pridumannyye istorii obladayut ogromnoy siloy i podlinnoy krasotoy.