29 October 2014 A Writer Without an Alarm Clock

„As far as art is concerned, I am an absolute and incontestable anarchist” – says Boris Akunin to Grzegorz Jankowicz in an interview published in the latest issue of the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly magazine. In the interview, Akunin reveals why his writing project is the effect of a chemical process, what he has got in common with Bakunin, why Russian writers are sometimes lazy and what he thinks of the contemporary Russia.

We advise you to read the whole interview.

Boris Akunin visited the 6^th Conrad Festival, which took place in Krakow from the 20^th to the 26^th of October 2014.