Frederic Beigbeder is a French writer, TV host, and literary critic. Today we discuss which books can help us cope with isolation, which books to read to predict the future, what French and Russian writers have in common, and when we will become posthuman.

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0:00 – Intro

0:49 – Role of literature

1:54 – Book recommendations

3:22 – Inspiring books

4:50 – Can modern writers predict the future?

6:10 – On immortality

8:08 – Border between the human and the post-human

10:18 – Privacy vs self-development

11:32 – Future of privacy

14:11 – Will reading go away in future?

15:28 – How books change you

16:56 – Favorite authors from the past

19:50 – Modern writers

22:24 – Like Bunin

28:05 – Frederic's new book

29:35 – Tolstoy or Dostoevsky