First published:
2022
ISBN: 978-608-261-097-9
Pages: 146
Format:
Cover: Paperback
Language: Macedonian
Translations: Serbian and Bulgarian
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis
The philosophical but at the same time entertaining book by Valentin Neshovski: One book represents the realization of what is expected from writers – a reaction to everything that the new world has brought, thinking about artificial intelligence, the cosmos, the human place in all of it. But in this work, the big questions are dealt with through a dynamic, entertaining story, in which the heroes are and are not heroes, the story starts and stops, old words and concepts are mixed with new ones and all this, chaotic and hilarious, brings the question of how to survive , what is truth and what is illusion. After all, maybe that's just how it is in life...
The main character Tom travels through known and unknown worlds in a mixed reality and fantasy. In doing so, he talks to several intergalactic beings, including Conversations with the Great Architect.
Reviews
Unusual and provocative.
It is a novel about life, about life's challenges, the challenges imposed by development, changes in consciousness and self-understanding, the collapse of institutions and in some way situations, the thickening of time, the crushing of man through alienated systems, the distortion of civilization, in an unpretentious style, without baroque humorous ornaments with which many so-called writers make up for their lack of artistic potential...
Branko Trichkovski, journalist
These are space monologues.
Imagine a room. In the middle is a round table. Asimov, Clarke, Philip K. they sit and talk about it. Dick, Nietzsche, Anne Sophie Mather, Jamirokai, Adams, Miles Davis..., as well as a few partners, who you are not sure if they are friends from your past or aliens. Dark Side of the Moon plays softly from the music system, and Guernica occupies a special place on the wall of the room. The owner in which this company gathered is Tom Stoppard, and time and space in this room are only illusions hidden behind the veil of science, art and religion, or perhaps among the printed letters of One Book by Valentin Neshovski.
Zoran Bendevski, journalist
A fantastic book.
In Valentin Neshovsky's cosmos, sharks are much more terrifying than Hemingway's ocean, because they feed voraciously on the primitivism, ignorance, stupidity and stupidity of the wild hordes.
Erol Rizaov, journalist
The author asks WHEN I AM, not WHERE I AM.
Among other things, the novel deals with the transformative and destructive power of new technologies, which Neshovski penetrated through indisputable, long and painstaking research, commenting on their expediency, related expectations and risks. By itself, this thematic aspect is a novelty in Macedonian literature.
Toni Popovski, architect, political scientist and sociologist
History, philosophy and science, all secrets are hidden in One book.
This is literature that makes you think and imagine. This is a novel that will not leave you indifferent.
Sergey Andreevski, artist
