The main character of Alessandro Baricco's new novel "Mr. Gwyn" is a writer, and a very successful one at that. He is adored by readers and praised by critics; books published from his pen are immediately sold out. But then one day, after a long walk in Regent's Park, he makes a decision: never write novels again. “Then what will you do?” - his literary agent is perplexed. - “Paint 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 special story, and it deserves to be written down.” Of course, such an unusual activity requires a special atmosphere, special light, special music, and most importantly, the model must pose without clothes. Undoubtedly, Baricco and his alter ego Mr. Gwyn had a strange, moreover, crazy idea. It is incredibly interesting to follow its development. The reader can only understand whether it is crazy enough to be true.