Alice doesn’t want to learn anything and doesn’t want to know anything. She’s convinced: being an educated person isn’t necessary—just successfully pretending is enough. Why read “War and Peace” if you can memorize a few smart lines from the novel to pass for an intellectual?
Alice’s father, a millionaire in a flashy pink suit, hires a tutor to turn the girl into an educated person. “The Education of Feelings” is a coming-of-education novel about… education. It’s Pygmalion set in the wild 90s. Setting: an apartment near Anichkov Bridge. Here, a real love triangle blossoms—high feelings collide with low actions, business interweaves with metaphysics, people betray and sacrifice themselves, and from “terrible material” a new personality is molded; and a chance encounter determines fate. Elena Kolina is the founder of the “Russian romantic comedy” genre, author of the famous cycle “Diary of a New Russian.” To date, 25 books by the writer have been published, many of which have been adapted for film/TV. The works have been translated into many languages, and the total print run exceeds 500,000 copies. Listen to the dazzling story of a modern Pygmalion in the touching performance by Grigory Perel.