Аннотация: He is more popular than Leo Tolstoy. An essay on modern Russial culture and literature.
He is more popular than Leo Tolstoy. An essay on modern Russial culture and literature.
I turn on the radio.
The air is filled with tales about a writer who turns out to be a widely known person.
One day, about a month ago, I heard on the radio, how this writer read one of his literary works.
Here is one logical (semantic) block, here is the second, here is the third...
I then got the impression that he had read some of my works, and borrowed my creative product.
Well, what is it? Now it is so accepted... And how can I prove my ideas, my perceptions, beliefs? Maybe a person thinks with me "on the same wavelength."
And today I learn the details of his life and feel the philosophical mood.
A person's life is complicated.
Yesterday a person acted as a great fashion designer, and today he is being treated in a hospital...
But still...
The writer has at least an apartment in Moscow, a country house, a personal assistant (he is also a driver), a press secretary... Everything is as befits a successful writer.
And how much is it in monetary units?
I am trying to calculate.
400,000 (four hundred thousand) rubles a month? Well, no. It will be not enough for everything.
Well, let's say 2,500,000 (two million five hundred thousand) rubles a month.
And how much does a writer get from one book sold? I heard that approximately 10 percent of the sales price, But, let's suppose, 50 percent.
Suppose one book costs 500 rubles. The writing fee (honorarium) from one book sold is (for this calculation) 250 rubles.
In total, it turns out that 10,000 (ten thousand) copies of this writer's books are sold per month.
For our time - not bad. Perhaps he surpasses Leo Tolstoy in popularity, that is, in book sales (among the modern reading public).
It is said that the total circulation of one book in our times rarely exceeds 2,000 (two thousand) copies.
It's nice to know that the Russial culture and literature are on the rise, on the wave of success.
Moreover, with such income, not small taxes are paid, and nothing is hidden.
And the native state needs money, needs financial resourses in our difficult time.
Not the video blogger Blinovskaya, of course... And besides, he is not a fraudster, and does not mislead anyone, does not deceive, does not pull rubles from anyone through (a mood of) a trust.
May 6, 2023 19:08
Translation from Russian into English: May 6, 2023 19:58.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Ценный аэропорт. Комическая трагедия'.
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