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Nikolai Grozni/Николай Грозни
Роден е в София. Музикалното си образование получава в националното училище „Любомир Пипков“ и колежа „Бъркли“ в Бостън, а литературното – в Университета „Браун“ в САЩ. Прекарва четири години като монах в Дарамсала – седалището на Далай Лама в Индия, където изучава будизъм и тибетски език.
През 2008 г. в САЩ публикува мемоари за живота си в Индия, а през есента на 2011 г. в САЩ излиза и романът му „Вундеркинд“, който по-късно е преведен и издаден и в Европа. Произведения на Грозни са печатани в "Харпърс", „Ню Йорк Таймс“, „Гардиън“ и „Сиатъл Ревю“.
Черноморски Упанишад
2023, 240стр.
ISBN 978-615-91333-7-8
Цена: 28лв.
Всичко, което е трябвало да знаете, всичко, което ще ви се наложи да узнаете за Черно море – тук, в един том, съдържащ митове за сътворението, свещени ритуали, описания, злободневни диалози, онтологични гатанки, показания на котки, автобиографичен материал, оригинални снимки.
„От момента, в който започнах да пълзя на четири крака по пясъка не съм спирал да се изумявам от Черно море, от неговите цветове и обитатели, от негового променливо и непроменливо присъствие. Херодот твърди, че Черно море е най-невероятното от всички морета. И въпреки това, дори като дете, аз знаех, че има нещо отвъд синьо-зелената прозрачност и хипнотичната поезия на вълните. Черноморския Упанишад картографира границата между аза и морето и пита какво се случва, когато тази линия избледнее и бъде отмита в безвъзвратните води. "
The Black Sea Upanishad
2022, 270pp.
ISBN 9786199133361
Price:
Clothbound hardback
BGN 39.90
Everything you should've known, everything you will need to know about the black sea—here, in a single volume containing creation myths, sacred rites, descriptions, everyday dialogues, ontological quandaries, testimonies by cats, autobiographical material, 50 original photographs.
"From the time I could crawl along the beach, I've been fascinated by the Black Sea, its colors, its citizens, its changing and unchanging presence. Herodotus claimed the Black Sea is the most marvelous of all seas. And yet, even as a child, I knew that there was something beyond the bluegreen transparency and the hypnotic poetry of the waves. The Black Sea Upanishad maps the line between self and sea and asks what happens when this line fades and is washed away into the unredeemable waters."
Songs for the Dust
2021, 146pp.
ISBN 9786199133347
Price:
Soft cover BGN 14.90
A book-length poem, a novel in verse.
Heliotropes
2020, 92pp.
ISBN 9786199133330
Price:
Clothbound hardback BGN 14.90
Soft cover BGN 10.90
Flower, tree, worm, seagull, moth, woman waking from a coma: the protagonists in Nikolai Grozni’s poetry collection Heliotropes come to terms with change, loss of identity, and mortality, while searching for a hidden sun.
Claustrophobias
ISBN 9786199052822
Price: BGN 10.90 | Цена: 10.90лв.
Nikolai Grozni, the protagonist of Claustrophobias, is beset by visions from his years as a Buddhist monk in India and his travails as an ex-monk returning to a so-called "normal" life in the West. His struggle to reconstruct the precise setting and facts of key events from his past in India, France, Bulgaria, Italy and the US, transforms into a Kafkaesque comedy of errors where the facts most resistant to verification are often the very elements that make up Nikolai's identity: his date of birth, his name, his age, and his reality in time and space. Each of the fifteen adventures is marked by a sense of ontological entrapment and identity loss--hence the common theme, claustrophobia. Nikolai is accompanied throughout by a cast of quirky characters who dabble in miracles and are always ready to engage in epistemological debates from the Indian tradition. A Cleveland Ifa priest stuffs people into Coca Cola bottles, a New Delhi bookseller sells Sanskrit manuals for constructing Vedic spaceships, a municipal clerk in Sofia deconstructs reality and disappears in the middle of the street.
Farewell, Monsieur Gaston
Hardcover – 2014
ISBN 9786191524129
Price: 23.90lv. | Цена: 23.90лв.
Farewell, Monsieur Gaston is a Dionysian mystery in which every character is also an actor, and each actor is a guest from another, hidden play, where all paths are circular and appearances are but a ruse by a primordial trickster-demiurge. Set up as an Athenian tragedy complete with a skene, a chorus leader, a chorus of manic bacchants, and an audience, the novel uncloaks a sunless, grotesquely violent realm and tracks the journey of an ill-fated Hero robbed of his most prized possession: his self.
Of Books and Long Tails
Nikolai Grozni/Iva Sasheva
Eloise, a curious mouse, and Percival, a shellshocked rat, live in a bookstore on Chicago's North Side. The books keep them company but also prevent them from forming meaningful friendships. In the end they must choose between fantasy and reality.
40 pages
ISBN 9786199 052884
Price: 19.90lv. | Цена: 19.90лв.
* "Вундеркинд", "Крака на костенурка", "Жития на безделници и пропаднали мистици", "Някой омагьоса битието" и "Да подремнеш в скута на Голямата Еднаквост" не са налични на този сайт.
