Франсис Пуленк: Я и мои друзья

The book "Francis Poulenc: Me and my friends" includes the composer's conversations with the musicologist Stephane Odel. Audel meticulously preserved in the book the text of Poulenc and the structure of the conversations, divided into chapters, each of which has its own theme. The first part consists of Poulenc's stories about himself and his work, the second - "My friends and I" from eight separate essays-portraits of musicians and close friends of Poulenc, meetings with whom enriched his life - Eric Satie, Max Jacob, Manuel de Falla, Arthur Honegger, Sergei Prokofiev, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky. The third section of the book is Poulenc's Diary of My Songs, a work completed but not published during the author's lifetime. It was published posthumously in 1964 by the Society of Friends of Poulenc with a foreword by Henri Sauguet.