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Lives of Idle Men and Degenerate Mystics

Lives of Idle Men and Degenerate Mystics

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Product Code:
840-01
ISBN
978-954-321-952-0
SKU
07.0019
Year
21-12-2011
Pages
232
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.34 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Magical Realism, Philosophical Prose

Nikolai Grozni

Nikolai Grozni

Nikolai Grozni was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. His given name is Nikolai Grozdinski.He began training as a classical pianist at the age of four and won his first major award in Salerno, Italy, at the age of nine. He studied jazz at Berklee College of Music, Boston. He began writing while living in India, where he spent four years as a Buddhist monk, studying Tibetian texts at the Institute of Buddhis…

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In 1995, Grozni left for India to become a Buddhist monk and study Tibetan language. He spent four years in Dharamsala, studying at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics, before joining Drepung Monastery in South India in 1999, where he stayed for six months. The five years he spent in India would become the inspiration for his three works in Bulgarian.

A virtuoso pianist, a Buddhist monk, writer or idler and a fallen mystic. What Nicolay Grozny actually is? Bulgarian or American citizen who lived in Bulgaria, in India, in the United States, and now in France? Or maybe he is all of this and something else ...

Николай Узунов 20/12/2012

Книгите на Грозни са може би най-доброто и четивно нещо, което е излизало от българско издателство в последните ... 180 години! :) Случайно попаднах на Грозни, но след няколко страници на книгата му, просто бях очарован колко добре могло да се пише в България, колко различно от всички останали терзийчета, филипови и сиромаховци!!!!

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