About the book: 2021 / In 2021, the famous Russian sociologist and translator Boris Vladimirovich Dubin would have turned 75 - a subtle connoisseur of European culture, literature and poetry, a public intellectual, the author of several hundred works, a laureate of numerous awards in Russia and abroad. Among Russian humanities scholars, he is known primarily as a sociologist at the Levada Center, who worked in the research paradigm of Yuri Levada. He is known to a wide circle of readers as a first-class translator of poetry and prose - Spanish, French, English, Hungarian, Polish. Many authors who formed the flower of European culture of the twentieth century became available to the Russian reader thanks to Boris Dubin. The book of his interviews is a document of the era and a valuable resource, a source of understanding and interpretation of Russian reality and public consciousness of the 1990–2000s, a panoramic view of the late Soviet and post-Soviet history. In the interview, Boris Dubin’s analytical language of description was formed, accurate and acute diagnoses of time were developed in his sociological research, and translation intuitions were formalized into the ethos and philosophy of translation.