Emperors of Ice Cream. Literary Essays

This book contains fifteen essays by different authors and in different languages. What connects them is not literature in the strict sense of the word, but writing - writing as different styles, authors' approaches, genres and usage: how to write rock criticism, for example; what is the proportion between biography and creativity; how a dictionary or a book can be presented when the reviewer had not read it. These essays are united by some seemingly eccentric questions such as: who was consumed with suspicion that his own library is more intelligent than himself or who asked himself whether a work of literature doesn't have more imagination than its author?