Alexander Ilichevsky (b. 1970) is a Russian prose writer and poet, winner of the Russian Booker (Matisse) and Big Book (Persian) awards. Alexander Ilichevsky’s new book of essays “Right to Left” is about tastes and the smells of foreign countries (Armenia and Latin America, Catalonia and the USA, Israel and Germany), about literature (Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Platonov and Kafka, Babel and Chekhov), about music (from Mozart and Maria Yudina to the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin) , about everything seen, heard, noticed - about what was imprinted in the “sixth sense” - memory...