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e-Book Wunderkind: A Novel download

by Nikolai Grozni

ISBN: 1451616945
ISBN13: 978-1451616941
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press (June 12, 2012)
Pages: 320
Category: Genre Fiction
Subategory: Literature

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Nikolai Grozni’s Wunderkind is an elegant, graceful novel that captures not only the power and beauty of music, but the stifling oppression of life in a totalitarian state

Nikolai Grozni’s Wunderkind is an elegant, graceful novel that captures not only the power and beauty of music, but the stifling oppression of life in a totalitarian state. The novel sings and howls, and in its finest moments, takes the reader’s breath away. Dinaw Mengestu, author of The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. After finishing Nikolai Grozni's book Wunderkind, I realized that the best part of the book put me in touch with Chopin in a way I had never experienced.

Nikolai Grozni's "Wunderkind" is an elegant, graceful novel that captures not only the power and beauty of music, but the stifling oppression of life in a totalitarian state. The novel sings and howls, and in its finest moments, takes the reader's breath away. Dinaw Mengestu, author of "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears ". "In this fine portrait of a suffocating society, what are especially remarkable is the vitality-Konstantin is a rebel with a cause, his anger contagious-and the way Grozni writes about music. Rapturous and insightful

Nikolai Grozni's book Wunderkind was a terrifying reading experience. It was also disturbing, sad, embarrassing

Nikolai Grozni's book Wunderkind was a terrifying reading experience. It was also disturbing, sad, embarrassing. A few times I had to put it down and walk away. It was quite literally making me sick. It is also absolutely spectacular. Wunderkind is an autobiographical novel about a piano student at the Sofia Music School for the Gifted in the last couple of years of communism. Konstantin and his friends are bright, passionate, talented and that makes them everything that th Nikolai Grozni's book Wunderkind was a terrifying reading experience.

Nikolai Grozni's book Wunderkind was a terrifying reading experience.

Электронная книга "Wunderkind: A Novel", Nikolai Grozni Nikolai Grozni-himself a native of Bulgaria and a world-class pianist in his youth-sets this electrifying portrait of adolescent longing and anxiety against a backdrop o. .

Электронная книга "Wunderkind: A Novel", Nikolai Grozni. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "Wunderkind: A Novel" для чтения в офлайн-режиме. Nikolai Grozni-himself a native of Bulgaria and a world-class pianist in his youth-sets this electrifying portrait of adolescent longing and anxiety against a backdrop of tumultuous, historic world events.

Find sources: "Nikolai Grozni" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR . Wunderkind (a novel, Free Press, 2011). Farewell, Monsieur Gaston (a novel, East West, 2014).

Find sources: "Nikolai Grozni" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message). Nikolai Grozni, (born Nikolay Grozdinski, Bulgarian: Николай Гроздински, March 28, 1973) is a multilingual Bulgarian-American novelist, short-story writer and musician. New York Times: Turtle Feet.

Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Hypnotic and headlong, Wunderkind gives us a stunningly urgent, acutely observed, and wonderfully tragicomic glimpse behind the Iron Curtain at the very end of the Cold War, reminding us of the sometimes life-saving grace of great music. Read on the Scribd mobile app.

Nikolai Grozni - himself a native of Bulgaria and a world-class pianist . Wunderkind is a gift for all the senses

Nikolai Grozni - himself a native of Bulgaria and a world-class pianist in his youth - sets this electrifying portrait of adolescent longing and anxiety against a backdrop of tumultuous, historic world events. Not for readers impatient with youth or lyric writing, this passionate novel should be pushed on anyone interested in music, politics, or energized coming-of-age tales. Wunderkind is a gift for all the senses. Nikolai Grozni’s shimmering, visceral prose unfurls like music, as if a baby grand served as his infernal typewriter. Patti Smith, bestselling author of Just Kids.

Nikolai Grozni‘s latest book is completely unique, not only in his ouevre, but in all literature: part Greek tragedy . I've been a fan of Nikolai Grozni since reading his Wunderkind, a novelization of (his?) life at his native Sofia Music Academy

Nikolai Grozni‘s latest book is completely unique, not only in his ouevre, but in all literature: part Greek tragedy (complete with chapter introductions by a Chorus, a prefatory Dramatis Personae), part invocation of Greek mythology, part Grand Guignol of endless nightmare, part Jungian individuation, part live Tarot divination. It’s a book of constant fascination and fantasy, of velocipedes and passageways and rooftop plunges to escape man-eating birds. I've been a fan of Nikolai Grozni since reading his Wunderkind, a novelization of (his?) life at his native Sofia Music Academy. You can still see his own performances as a wunderkind pianist from.

Now in paperback, “Wunderkind is a gift for all the senses. Nikolai Grozni’s shimmering, visual, and visceral prose unfurls like music, as if a baby grand served as hisinfernal typewriter” (Patti Smith).Fifteen-year-old Konstantin is a brash, brilliant pianist of exceptional sensitivity in the bleak and controlled environment of Sofia, Bulgaria, in the 1980s, struggling toward adulthood in a society where honest expression often comes at a terrible cost. Confined to the militaristic Music School for the Gifted for most of each day and a good part of the night, Konstantin exults in his small rebellions—smoking, drinking, and mocking Party pomp and cant at every opportunity. Through it all, Konstantin plays the piano with inflamed passion, transported by unparalleled explorations of Chopin, Debussy, and Bach, even as he is cursed by his teachers’ numbing efforts at mind control. Hypnotic and headlong, Wunderkind’s dazzling portrait of youthful turmoil gives us a stunningly urgent, exquisitely observed, and wonderfully tragicomic glimpse behind the Iron Curtain at the very end of the Cold War while reminding us of the sometimes life-saving grace of great music.
Comments:
Milleynti
Just getting started reading it. Will check back in later. Well written thus far. Hard to believe the author
wrote it in English and English is not his native tongue.

Runemane
Every once in a while, I come across a book that changes my thoughts about a time and place, darkens my mental outlook, eats at me from the inside and stays with me all day. Wunderkind does all the above by placing me into a very uncomfortable mental state deepening my understanding of what was even when I thought I knew. Now I know that I did not.

Konstanin, a gifted and brilliant musician is placed into a special school where the Communist leaders own you: your thoughts, actions, and future. It is a story of romance and pure hormonal actions where depicting between the two is impossible. But in the end, it is a story of how life is unfair, that people are placed into situations that have no solution. The writing is raw and grim. The grime and dirt and psychological pressures gnaw at the reader until you cannot put the book down.

Nicolai Grozni in his second novel displays talent that is remarkable; the metamorphosis of the musical phrasing into real unadulterated life takes your breath away. Taking his past life as a pianist in Bulgaria during the Russian occupation in the 1980's, Grozni masterfully uses his musical escape to symbolize and describe his life during that most difficult time. Grozni spares no emotion. I laughed out loud, wiped the sting from my eyes, felt pure hatred and anguish and I squirmed, but I never wanted it to end.

This is an ambitious work that superbly accomplishes a tour de force in as little as 288 pages. However, as his music demanded, he also demands that the reader follow his well paced metronome. The rhythms are unique and equally forceful upon the reader. Racing through the pages is not allowed and Grozni expertly keeps the reader in check.

While this book cannot be recommended for everyone, I give it my highest recommendation. This just might be the best book that I've read this year.

Jeronashe
After finishing Nikolai Grozni's book Wunderkind, I realized that the best part of the book put me in touch with Chopin in a way I had never experienced. I downloaded the musical pieces I could find on the Web either for sale in iTunes or as MP3 files that were freely available. Listening to the music and reading different parts of the book where Chopin's meanings in the music were revealed was just plain fun. Every second of the book in these musical chapters was a joy.

The rest of the book was a bit up and down. For me, Bulgaria's experience in the world is one of mystery. I know that they were under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire for about 500 years, emerging along with the rest of the Balkan states in the 19th century as a unique but commonly confused state with the rest of the region. After WWII they were the only state that sided with the Nazis who emerged from the conflict with more territory than when they went in. Then, the poor sods came under the Soviet rule. However, unlike Tito's Yugoslavia that had a good deal of autonomy and were the only communist state in the region not in the Warsaw Pact, Bulgaria not only sided with the Soviets, they embraced a Stalinist style state to make sure that the imperialists' liberal ideas didn't take root in their emerging worker's paradise.

At the same time, the Bulgarians were very keen on developing world class musicians in the classical mold. Those youths recognized as "gifted" were sent to the Sofia Music School for the Gifted and Grozni's concept of "gifted" reminded a bit of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. Gronzni basically argues that the 'gifted' are special and posses a special magic that the rest of us just don't have. The book's hero, Konstantin, pits himself against the grey communist aparachicks who run the lives of not only the gifted musicians but of everyone else in the heavy-handed Stalinist soul-crushing society. They rail against the "cult of the personality" that celebrates the individual glory over the good of the masses. They want to condense any sense of self into a sense of the totalitarian oneness with the people under the banner of communism. The abandonment of self, then, is either to the soul liberating music of Chopin or the soulless Stalinist regime of total obedience to the state.

A thought that caught my attention was the contempt that the main wunderkind, Konstantin, holds for almost everyone else in the school. He thought of them as mediocre and/or robots. This is understandable in a Stalinist type regime, and for talentless children of aparachicks who were in the school because of their parents' connections. If their musical talents are indeed a gift, one can hardly claim to have earned such talents. It's like being born into a rich or powerful family. Through blind luck the gifted and the privileged win the lottery at birth, and while some hone their talents they still gripe. Instead of being thankful, they are (like the rest of society) resentful and despondent. In more respects than not wunderkinds in Bulgaria sounded a lot like the kids in the West who flee the common, the man in the grey flannel suit and act rebellious.

Anyway, the theme kept repeating itself--poor me, a genius stuck with bossy adults and dull kids. If it weren't for the cigarettes, sex, and booze in the attic with a few exceptionally talented kids like myself, I'd end it all. That theme is not too original and every so many pages the same theme is ground out again. In Sofia, Bulgaria under a totalitarian rule, it does have a decidedly empirical truth. However, you hear the same story of youthful angst as they try and figure out "What's it all about?" in everywhere from L.A. to Berlin. Hearing it again and again in the same book is a little tiresome even though Grozni is a wonderful writer. All in all, though, compared with current literature, the book is still a real gem not to be missed.

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