About the book: 2004 / Marusya Klimova (Tatyana Kondratovich) - writer and translator, author of the acclaimed novels "Blue Blood", "The Little House in Bois Colombes", “Blonde Beasts”, as well as the collections “Sea Stories”, “Celine in Russia”, “Parisian Meetings”. Her translations of French radicals are widely known: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Jean Genet, Pierre Guyot, Georges Bataille, Monique Wittig and others. “My History of Russian Literature” is a book whose genre is difficult to define, since there are no similar books in Russia yet was. Marusya Klimova not only rereads Russian classics, but rewrites its history anew. However, the meaning of the book is not limited to the desire for a total revaluation of values ​​- it is also a kind of intellectual autobiography of the author, in which the facts of her personal life are intertwined with the destinies of literary heroes and writers, and harsh provocative judgments are combined with humor, accuracy of observations and genuine sincerity. The book will delight or indignation among the widest circle of readers.