Other Notes

"Other Notes" is a novel-patience in 104 chapters, which, like 104 cards, can be shuffled and read in the order proposed by the author or two decks can be assembled to try to trace the story linearly.  This book is... about the origins of silence, the invisible reasons that cultivate it, and how traumatic unsaid words are, about the birth of music and man, about death — of music and man, betrayal, grief, and self-overcoming.  We often wish we could live life differently — become someone else or even swap places with someone. But can one change their life and enter the same river twice if the patience does not come together? Features: A new novel by the laureate of the "Big Book" award (2023) and the "Yasnaya Polyana" award (2023) A homage to "The Game in Classics" by Julio Cortázar Quotes: "It was not love, but a fire in the heart. Love had the scent of incense and lavender. Love had a color — white. Love had the taste of tangerines. Love had a beginning — banal, like the sound cliché of thunder from a movie about Frankenstein. What was foggy was the ending." "Because no one ever shared my love for music — for my music, it was sometimes very hard. I was surrounded by people who could not hear. Deaf-mutes, conducting with gestures. Those who could arrogantly poke me at my otherness. Even then, when I did not give myself away with a single sigh. And suddenly it turned out that this is not the most important thing, that one can live in silence and desire it, to step onto this unfamiliar path of silence and trudge along it, and not care that at the end there is no glimmer of light." "I will not leave a trace. Only a mountain of doubts. I doubt that Honduras exists. That the northern lights exist. I have not seen them, only a map and a photograph — not evidence. No one has seen God either. They say he exists. They also say that there is fate. That each, the strangest fate has its advantages and disadvantages. It would be good to ask the authors of the theory of the advantages of fate, which is destined for a short life."