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Not all foreign writers who are important to the author are represented in this book, but all of them (except for one) are important to him. The author does not know how to define the genre of the texts collected here, but he suspects that they are neither literary articles nor literary critical essays, nor biographical sketches, nor - especially - reviews. But the author knows what kind of target audience he is counting on: this collection can be useful to those who have already learnt to read but are still learning to understand what they have read. The author guarantees neither pleasure nor benefit to representatives of other age, social, and professional groups.