About the book: 1965 / Doctor of Philology Irakliy Luarsabovich Andronikov, literary scholar, writer, art critic, widely known as an excellent master of oral story. The book “I Want to Tell You...” contains articles, essays, literary portraits, short stories, and research covering a range of contemporary and historical topics, reflecting the author’s wide range of interests. Here are works about prose, about poetry, about cinema, theater, music, painting, artistic reading, criticism, about various literature for radio and television, thoughts about the laws of oral and written speech. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Lev pass through the book Tolstoy, Gorky, Chaliapin, Alexey Tolstoy, Ostuzhev, Mikhoels, Yakhontov, musicologist Sollertinsky, writer Sergei Smirnov, academicians Krachkovsky, Fersman and Vinogradov, Guramishvili, Ilya Chavchavadze, Georgy Leoyaidze, philologist Pavle Ingorokva, Dovzhenko, Khachaturian, Rasul Gamzatov... Phenomena are illuminated Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian, Armenian, Kabardian and Dagestan cultures. However, with all the variety of genres and topics, there is a strong connection between the individual chapters, thanks to which the seemingly heterogeneous material forms a coherent book. It is distinguished by its novelty and liveliness of presentation..