Pascal Bruckner, the winner of Medici and Renodo awards, is known to the Russian reader as the novelist («the Divine child», «Thieves of beauty», «the Bitter moon»). But mr. Bruckner is also one of the brightest thinkers of present-day France.
The new book by Pascal Bruckner represents a bright lampoon about consciousness of Europe, its mutual relations with America and the Islamic world. The lifted themes are actual for the Russia too, comprehending its position in the changed world, — in particular, on the post-Soviet territory.