“A Person Becomes Himself” and Around It. A Meeting with Filipp Dzyadko. A Conversation with a Friend About Books. In Person.

In 1965, six schoolboys from Tonga ran away from school on someone else’s boat, were caught in a storm, and lived on an uninhabited island for fifteen months. Nothing resembling Lord of the Flies happened there: they caught fish, planted a garden, sang in chorus, and treated one another. Everything that saved them had taken humanity hundreds of thousands of years to invent.

At a meeting with writer Filipp Dzyadko at “Babel” in Jerusalem on October 13, we will talk about what helps people move forward on uninhabited and inhabited islands.

About the Arzamas project, Bolshoy Gorod magazine, the novel Radio Martyn, and the book about poetry Through the Eyes of a Lizard.

And, most importantly, about Filipp Dzyadko’s new project, Falkor—a history of the world for readers aged 12–14, told through stories, pictures, and comics. It is a book series about world history. The main characters are not kings and wars, but people: their adventures, experiences, and discoveries. Academic adviser: Andrey Zorin. The first book, Food and the First Superpowers, has already been published, and the series is planned to include 25 books in total!

October 13
19:30
Babel. Jerusalem
31 King George Street
Free admission

Registration by phone: 0542067957.

Books available—hooray.

You mustn’t miss meetings like this. It doesn’t matter whether you have a reader of the appropriate age or not.

At worst, that reader is you.

And a meeting with Filia is always fascinating, enchanting, and wonderful.

One of the most interesting conversation partners ever.

We’re waiting for everyone.