Alexander Livergant is a literary critic, translator, editor-in-chief of the journal “Foreign Literature”, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Author of biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde, Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Virginia Woolf. New book “Palham Grenville Woodhouse. About the benefits of optimism" is the first portrait in Russian of the greatest English humorist of the 20th century in the literary, theatrical, social and political interior of the era. Long life and immense in volume (more than a hundred books) and intensity of creativity of the creator of the legendary Jeeves and Wooster, who wrote for three quarters of the last century, is an example of material, family and creative well-being, unparalleled in the history of literature. But truly cloudless optimism, detachment from life, tractability and unprecedented hard work brought Wodehouse, as the reader will see, not only “benefits”, but also a lot of disappointments.

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