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The book consists of 2 novels: The Third One, 'a novel in short
stories' as it might be called, and Reflection. Some of the stories
in The Third One are written in the realistic manner, but most of
them are postmodern. All of them make a kind of entity, and if read
separately, they 'sound' in a different way than as part of the
whole novel. The Third One is about many important things - love,
art, past and future. So it's about life. In the epilogue, I
discuss the essence of art, from the postmodern point of view, with
my two great teachers - so I dare to consider myself the third one.
Reflection is more realistic, with some postmodern melodies. It's
based on the true story of my parents' and grandparents' lives in
the Soviet Union, in the 30s-50s of the 21st century. The general
idea of the novel is happiness. How to be happy despite all the
troubles and tribulations? How to remain optimistic? How to love
life? And, as The Third One, Reflection reflects the past and the
future. And we understand that the epochs of our life are very
similar, no matter how different they are.
Roman Numbers is a novel by Michael Blekhman, an author living in
Montreal, Canada. It is about living in the Soviet Ukraine in the
early 50s of the 20tht century. The novel is another story of the
Blekhman family saga, begun in Blekhman's Reflection. Roman Numbers
is a lyrical narration about the life of a young family who comes
to a Ukrainian village to work. The main characters are Klara, a
young lawyer, her husband Samuil, a young doctor, as well as their
friends embodying the best features of the Ukrainian nation. Roman
Numbers is joy, melancholy, humor. It is full of metaphors, deep
thoughts about life and happiness, about a young child's growing
up. As a literary critic said, such a poetic description of Ukraine
was made in the 19th century by classics Shevchenko and Gogol, and
by Blekhman in the 21st century.
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