Georg Hennick is a famous violin maker. When his life was coming to an end, he decided to resist oblivion and challenge life as a whole, in the name of art, by making an unconventional violin, unlike any musical instrument made before, to fill the universe with unrepeatable tones. As for Victor, the child who tells us this story, he met Grandpa Henik for the first time on his fifth birthday, when he got his first violin. He then met him many times later, and a great friendship developed between them.
In this novel, Victor Baskov writes, in a musical style, a warm story about art, the passage of time, the shadows of loved ones, and Bulgarian society and its diversity.
The period of writing these stories extended for many years, extending from 1987 with the story “The Smell” to 2013 with the story “May God prolong his life.” They were all written under the weight of heavy tyranny, which made our thinking almost paralyzed and made us free executioners and observers of ourselves. It is “natural” for most of them to be apologized for publishing, as happened with the story “The Smell” which was either apologized for publishing or was ignored by all the newspapers to which it was sent at that time, as well as It happened with several other stories.
All the stories are united by a single concern and a similar atmosphere. Their events take place in the imperial atmosphere, with the meaning of the emperor’s word. The reader does not need effort or help from anyone in deciphering it. They speak of a general concern that everyone feels the burden of, without exception. Some were vocal about it at the times when the stories were written. Some people kept it quiet, but despite the fact that the majority were forced to remain silent, and those who opened their mouths paid a heavy price for not remaining silent, for everyone it was a heavy burden that a person could not get used to, or at the very least hope that it would go away.
These stories were among the forms of expression of that general pain. Some of them were destined to come out to the screen - in some short periods of relief - to reach the audience, even in different formulations from the stories in the book, and some of them remained imprisoned until circumstances allowed them to appear on the pages of this book in your hands.
The story of a dream:
It consists of short and very short thoughts that tell about a reality that the writer went through and some of the situations, and it contains messages and advice from which the reader can learn in his daily practical life.
I hope that you will respond to the issue of approving the publication of the book
Many thanks and gratitude to you
Maryam Abdullah Al-Dhanhani
