Distant relatives

"Distant relatives" is the second book of the Ukrainian philosopher and publicist Volodymyr Yermolenko. This is a book about Rousseau, Casanova, Hoffmann, Flaubert, Derrida, Sontag, Barthes, Gary - and at the same time about intimacy, pleasure, invisibility, loss, slowness and sensuality. This is a book about people and their lives, their pains and joys - and at the same time about the meanings these people created from their experiences. This is a book about how to turn a weakness into a strength, and a flaw into an advantage. About how distant classics can suddenly become close - like friends, like relatives.