A narrative with comparatively few vocabulary but occupied of sense, The “Music of Life” is the living of an irritated performer. The narrative is dictated by a storyteller who meets the performer in a coach station almost certainly in Siberia & I snowstorm. Narrator was in the center of a lot of trapped traveler search for a lead when the jingle of spongy music beckons him to an empty part of this train location where aged fixtures is store. There he meet this performer & tell us his narrative as coincidence bring them jointly, on & off, more than a few times.
Throughout the “Stalin Era”, “Alexei Berg”, the pianist, escapes from Moscow very soon previous to his first community concert. As he does so, he found out that parents are in prison, quickly to be sent to deport. After fairly little incidents anywhere public conceal him & he barely escapes from damage, he fined his approach to a battlefield where “Russians fought Germans at WW II”. He don the individuality of a deceased “Russian soldier” who look like him & manages to clash in the conflict to afterward turn into the director of a “general” whose life he save through the conflict.
What enthralled me was writer use of discriminating words with strong market, which reminded me of poems. This narrative was at first printed in French, and then translates into additional languages; though, in strength, it forever stayed “Russian”. The translator “Geoffrey Strachan”, too, deserves lofty praise for this victorious conversion.
“Music of a Life”, even though only 109 leaf, is an epic in spirit, since it is concerning music, adore, loss, war, & political disturbance. It would construct me very joyful to see this magnificent writer win the “Nobel Prize” one day, only for the reason that (in my view), his work warrant it.