French writer, journalist and critic Frederic Beigbeder (b. 1965), well known to Russian readers for his ironic, provocative novels, comments on fifty works that the French called the best books of the 20th century. Fifty short, but succinct and witty essays representing subjective ( how could it be otherwise!) from the author’s point of view, will introduce the reader to the “software” works of the last century. For the first time in Russian!