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Kirill Kobrin - literator, istorik. Avtor bolee trekh desiatkov knig i mnogochislennykh publikatsii na evropeiskikh i vostochnykh iazykakh. So-osnovatel' i so-redaktor literaturno-khudozhestvennogo onlain-proekta post(non)fiction. Pishet na russkom i angliiskom. Zhivet gde-to v Evrope.Sbornik esse Kirilla Kobrina - o liudiakh slova, v oboikh smyslakh etogo vyrazheniia. Ego geroi - literatory, libo te, kto khotia by nenadolgo, vol'noopredeliaiushchimisia zaglianul v pisatel'skii tsekh. Vse oni - nesmotria na razlichiia istoricheskie, gendernye, klassovye, liubye - umeli derzhat' svoe slovo, po krainei mere, v samykh vazhnykh sluchaiakh, imeiushchikh otnoshenie k tomu, chto oni khoteli skazat', vyvodia slova na bumage/ekrane. Geroi novoi knigi Kobrina zhili v raznye vremena, ot IV do XXI veka nashei ery, v samykh raznykh stranakh, ot Podnebesnoi imperii do Soedinennogo korolevstva. Metody ikh zhizni i ikh sochinitel'stva byli tozhe samye raznye, no chto-to obshchee vse zhe prosvechivaet skvoz' pestrye obstoiatel'stva zhiznei etikh liudei. Eto obshchee Kobrin i pytaetsia nashchupat' v svoikh esse. On pishet o Ksav'e de Mestre, Tao Iuan'mine, Li Miller, Dzhordzhe Oruelle, Mishel' Bernstain, Marke Fishere, V.G. Zebal'de i mnogikh drugikh, neizvestnykh, zabytykh i poka ne zabytykh, poka izvestnykh.