Once again about “Twenty Minutes of Silence” by Hélène Bessette Almost unknown during her lifetime, the French writer Hélène Bessette (1918–2000) gradually began to gain fame after her death: it took readers a long time to appreciate her experimental works. Now one of her “poetic novels” can be read in Russian - at the request of “Gorky” Anton Prokopchuk talks about “Twenty Minutes of Silence”.