Mr. Gwyn

4 hrs. 56 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alessandro Baricco

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

The main character of Alessandro Baricco’s novel “Mr. Gwyn” is a writer—quite successful, too. Readers adore him and critics praise him; books that come from his pen are snapped up instantly. But one day, after a long walk through Regent’s Park, he makes a decision: never write novels again.

“What will you do instead?” his literary agent wonders.

“Write portraits of people. But not the way artists do it.”

Gwyn intends to WRITE PORTRAITS WITH WORDS, because “every person is not a character but a unique story, and it deserves to be written down.” Naturally, for such an unusual occupation, a special atmosphere is needed—special light, special music—and, most importantly, the model must pose without clothes.

Undoubtedly, Baricco and his alter ego, Mr. Gwyn, came up with a strange, even mad idea. It is wildly interesting to follow how it develops. All the reader has to do is understand whether it is mad enough to be true.