Summary
Jurij Andruhovyč: Radio Noć
Radio Noć Jurij Andruhovyč is a musical novel about escape, revolution and identity. We follow Rotsky, pianist and rebel, through Europe and the ether, in a novel full of satire, poetry and political fiction.
After the collapse of the revolution, Josip Rotski, a musical hero of the barricades whose name "rhymes" with Trotsky, Brodsky and Joseph Roth, is forced to flee to the West, where he lives as a salon pianist in a hotel in the Swiss Alps. When a dictator from his homeland arrives at the hotel for a summit of world leaders, he decides to use the opportunity and free the nation from the tyrant. After serving his prison sentence, Rotski hides in his native Carpathians from the secret services, as well as from new persecutors, whom he has drawn on his neck because of a deal with a prison friend. But not for long, he is again forced to flee. It is found on all the meridians of Europe, from Tyrol to Stockholm to the Greek island. With him are his loyal companions the raven Edgar and the somewhat inappropriate lover Anime. Ultimately, he ends up on a prison island, on the zero meridian, from where he broadcasts his music and poetry, his story.
Radio Noć by Yuri Andruhovyč is a unique musical novel with many layers and secrets, a space where adventurous romance meets fantasy. A revolutionary saga, a biographical burlesque or a spy thriller that illuminate the stage of the immediate present in unforgettable linguistic fireworks, confronting fears and real threats with the sovereignty of the imagination.
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