/View.data/ I don’t disguise my weak spot for erudite authors. Those that handle to provide me each mental ecstasy and emotional delight with their books. Writers like Eco, Borges, Persig, Somoza…
I learn Prof. Valery Stefanov’s e-book “Love Tales within the Babylonian Library” and to the already talked about ecstasy and delight I used to be additionally pleased with the actual fact that there’s a Bulgarian writer who can simply be positioned on this private rating of mine.
The e-book is uncommon – a group of tales, variations of the identical Outdated Testomony legend. Every half is written with the language, imagery and even the characters of six greats – Hasek, Kafka, Platonov, Borges, Salinger and Persig.
I’m not an expert literary critic, regardless of my training as a philologist. I can not do an in-depth scientific evaluation of Prof. Stefanov’s quick – solely 194 pages – however big e-book. I’ll inform about what I noticed and felt in it, within the hope that another person will open these pages and
to expertise the identical literary happiness
This can be a e-book the place the author turns into an actor. It enters a picture, fills it with itself and transforms it. A particularly troublesome process, as a result of you have got to have the ability to concurrently protect the genius of the unique, but in addition protect your individual identification.
Unusual as it might sound, that is solely doable for a literary critic, that’s, for an individual who is aware of the narrative mechanism of different writers so properly that he can tear it down and put it again collectively. Prof. Stefanov is without doubt one of the finest literary students in our nation. And now, with none doubt, I can declare that he’s additionally the most effective writers.
On this carnival panopticon, the legend of David and Bathsheba, from whose union Solomon was born – the everlasting image of human knowledge, is repeated in an infinite mirror.
Encoded on this legend is essentially the most historical archetype related to primal instincts – of the bully, the alpha male, who takes the spouse of the weak to move his genetic thread down the ages. The very construction of the e-book repeats the legend inside itself by way of the interweaving of
the literary gene of a number of nice writers
on this delusion and its subsequent replica in a brand new literary material.
I used to be actually moved by the best way through which Valery Stefanov grabs the language of the literary giants and begins to rework and reproduce it. All of them wrote in several languages, they got here all the way down to us by way of the translations we all know. It’s pointless to straight refashion the unique, Bulgarian readers won’t respect it. Subsequently, it has come to breed the replica – the postmodernist precept that fully reshaped the best way we understand artwork.
And right here comes one other degree of delight – if you understand how Stefanov managed to convey even the tortures of the translator. In Platonov’s half, for instance, that hard-to-overcome Russian phrase order has been preserved, which didn’t obey the sense of the Bulgarian translator and remained as an imported attribute within the translation of “Chevengur”, for instance.
As I learn I puzzled what it was
to attempt to reside within the head of Borges
To roam the countless labyrinths of his thoughts, communicate his language and penetrate all his universes. Like within the Minotaur’s Labyrinth. However Valery Stefanov clearly caught the thread and managed to beat it, and in addition to speak about it with the identical mystical-philosophical pathos.
The clever insanity of Persig and Kafka, the casually sardonic satire of Haszek, the indifferent depth of Salinger – all that is alive in “Love Tales from the Library of Babylon”.
The parable has undergone metamorphosis, revival, refraction and transforming. The writer has turned its core code right into a base for reprogramming the mythic entity, tying it to each the supply and the delta of the narrative stream.
Someplace in the course of the e-book I felt like I could not go on with out stopping for a bit. Not for the rest, however as a result of I actually felt ecstasy – on a degree past the conventional emotion of studying. I did not have to investigate the phrases, the sensation of all this multi-layeredness was born by itself, with out heavy intermediate evaluation, with out mental distance.
This hardly ever occurs to me and with only a few books –
gasping with pleasure
For me, Prof. Valeri Stefanov is without doubt one of the trendy classics – not Bulgarian, however world. As a result of the e-book is written as a sport, with ease and ease, the identical one that’s felt within the voice of operatic geniuses after they overcome unthinkable tones for bizarre individuals. This literary experiment is past the facility of each good author. I already mentioned – it’s important to be good at writing, but in addition good at vital and analytical eye to create it.
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