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IT'S TIME by Pavel Kostin
IT’S TIME by Pavel Kostin
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Pavel writes about modern day Don Quixote heroes, who don’t need windmills to fight, they have their own ideas to explore… But I won’t be spoiling the fun for you, read for yourself and find out. I highly recommend, especially to young romantics.
Ivan Oreshkin, Russia
Pavel Kostin About His Novel
“IT’S TIME” is a book which has been written by the city. Not me. Not a man. The book appeared on the walls of the city itself, has grown along with structures and buildings over time. So I can say that the novel is written on the walls of my city. This relates directly to the plot … but I am not going to spoil the fun for you here, I will just say that the secret is hidden in the urban art, street art, and my book about this partly.
There are many mysteries there, but what is mysticism? Who can reveal, where it ends and begins? Is magic real? I believe that magic exists and always existed, that it is present in each of us, lives in every moment of our lives, and it is is hidden from everyday sight, and only occasionally, sometimes, for one sparkling moment – she shows us her radiant self. I believe everyone experienced those moments at some point in their life. Do you remember one of your magic moments? My book is about this.
The city is inhabited by different people. Strange and funny. Ordinary and extraordinary. By those who make you want to yawn with boredom, and those that capture your imagination. People who cannot imagine how to break free from comfortable, warm and unbearably dull routine, and people who cannot imagine a day in it. People who repeat only what has been taught to them, and people who are always doing something new and want to build for themselves another life. Ordinary people and … not so ordinary. Where would you place yourself? My book is about this, too.
The city has a surface and a bottom. The city has a day and a night. Bright day, tense, full of dust and bustle; night – dark and mysterious, full of beauty and charm. Day comes with work, rush and routine – it is time for business people. Nigh brings opportunities for creation and the unknown – it is time to discover the unknown, time for artists and explorers. But beware, the seeker! At the depths of the night, there at the bottom, unchartered waters await with surprises and danger. Is it worth risking the dusty bustle of the day for the sake of coolness and beauty of the night? What would you personally choose? Predictability and comfort of routine or dangers of discovering the unknown? My book is about this.
There is noise and there is peace in the city. A continuous struggle and the romantic beauty, there is boredom and there is magic in the city. It’s a place to escape and a place where danger awaits. There is endless traffic and eternal peace. There are enemies and friends there. The city is you and there is street art in the city. That’s what my book is all about.
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A Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
Lermontov’s only full-scale novel, which prophetically describes the duel in which he later lost his own life. The hero of the novel, Pechorin is an intense individual, a military officer who kidnaps beautiful daughter of Circassian tribesman and who, according to Lermantov’s own introduction, is a composite portrait, made up of all the vices which flourish, full grown, amongst the generation of the time.
On July 25, 1841, at Pyatigorsk, fellow soldier Nikolai Martynov, who had been the butt of Lermontov’s jokes, challenged Lermontov to a duel. The duel took place two days later at the foot of Mashuk mountain. Lermontov deliberately chose the edge of a precipice for the duel, so that if either combatant was wounded, he would fall and his fate would be sealed. Lermontov was killed by Martynov’s first shot. Much of his best verse was posthumously discovered in his pocket-book.
This edition is a new revision aiming to bring English translation as close as possible to Lermontov’s original vision. There has been some confusion in various English editions containing entries of Pechorin’s diary, not present in Lermontov’s original and various other alterations of Lermnontov’s original structure of the novel. This edition has been compiled after close examination of Russian originals and follows author’s intended structure. Released under Urban Romantics imprint , aiming to give readers a complete experience of both classic and contemporary romantic writing.
About The Author
Mikhail Lermontov 1814 – 1841, a Russian Romantic writer and poet, sometimes called the poet of the Caucasus, was the most important presence in Russian poetry after Alexander Pushkin’s death until his own death in a duel four years later, at the age of 26. Lermontov’s life is one of the most epic and dramatic in the history of literature. After attacking the tsar as complicit in the de facto assassination of Pushkin, Lermontov himself fell in a duel that many believe was also the work of a tsarist conspiracy designed to silence nascent rebellion. His major works, which can be readily quoted from memory by many Russians, suffer from the generally poor quality of translation from Russian to English – Lermontov therefore, remains largely unknown to English-speaking readers.
Reviews
This study of a man – and a society – in crisis was to become one of the most important books of its time… I have read this novel several times, young and old, always hooked’ – Doris Lessing
No one in Russia has ever written such prose, so precise, so beautiful, so exquisite. – Nikolai Gogol
Still just a boy, and he wrote A Hero of Our Time! – Anton Chekhov
In A Hero of Our Time, Lermontov managed to create a fictional person whose romantic dash to cynicism, tiger-like suppleness and eagle eye, hot blood and cool head, tenderness and taciturnity, elegance and brutality, delicacy of perception and harsh passion to dominate, ruthlessness and awareness of it, are of lasting appeal to readers of all countries and centuries. – Vladimir Nabokov
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