Студентът по хармония. Балада за Виктор Пасков

The second part of the author's autobiographical trilogy is addressed to his late friend Viktor Paskov, the writer and musician who wrote his best-known novel at the narrator's vineyard near Varna and dedicated it to him. Set in the twisted last years of socialism, it bears witness to the agony of a generation left with unfinished stories and autopsies of love. The book asks whether art matters more than the one who makes it, and whether a person must deny the human being within to triumph, as the narrator looks with admiration, and some envy, at the friend he considered the better craftsman.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

246 pages in the original

First published

2012 by Ciela

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9789542812302 (original)