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    Five Steps to Resurrection
    Five Steps to Resurrection
    Five Steps to Resurrection
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    Five Steps to Resurrection

    By Anna-Nina Kovalenko

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    Main themes: love, woman as its object and its source, emigration as a cultural experience, the philosophy of spiritual ascent, compassion for the animals, for the world. (One of main characters of the novel is Stacey, the cat adapted by heroine who then perished, but she came in critical time to save it.) Genesis and memorable events of the second half of the twentieth century, beginning of the twenty-first.

    Brief annotation: to an extent, Five Steps to Resurrection can be considered an alternative to Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marques, in which a man and a woman, destined for each other, finally unite in advanced age. The narration, done in the voice of the female protagonist, maintains an ironic and skeptical distance, offering a bitter smile at times. In contrast to Marques, the author of Five Steps focuses not on physiological details but rather on visual descriptions (whether aesthetical or anti-aesthetical) as well as on subconscious processes. This novel, as the authors earlier novel White Horse, is written in a wreath form: each chapter begins with the last line of the preceding chapter, and the conclusion goes back to the foreword. The authors interest in the philosophical teaching Everest, and the work of its spiritual leader, D. Arundel, is apparent.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781490773780
    Five Steps to Resurrection
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    Anna-Nina Kovalenko

    Anna-Nina Kovalenko Painter, graphic artist, writer, performer, curator. Born in a family of Old Believers in the village of Sidoryonkovo in western Siberia. Studied at the State Institute of Cinematography (1965–68). Worked for Siberian TV and local miners newspapers (Belovo, Kemerovo). Back to Moscow: trained as an artist under Alexei Maximov (1970s). Member of the Moscow Independent Artist Association (1979–86). Joined a peace movement, became a member of the “Trust” group, met young artists (hippies) and organized underground shows with them, the most significant event of which was show/demonstration “Art is Stronger than Bombs” (1986) ended by mass arrests and destroying art works. Engaged in solo activism for peace, leading to physical assaults, arrest, imprisonment and incarceration in a psychiatric hospital, where she was forcibly injected with drugs used for physical destroying. Released from hospital after signing a document promising to leave the Soviet Union within six days (end of 1986). Awarded political asylum by the US Embassy in Moscow and moved with her teenage daughter to New York (1987). Participant of many exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, Chicago (USA) and European towns. Member of the Salon des Indépendants in Paris (1989–2000), European Art Group in France (1997–99), Salon Art Senior (M-me A. Grimaldi) in Monaco. 1999-2014 recipient of diplomas and medals from Fédération Nationale de la Culture Français?. Member of Russian Writers Club (New York) since 1984 ?. Member of American Pen Center Author of novels, stories and essays published in Russian language in Russia (“Day and Night” - Krasnoyarsk, “North”- Murmansk, “Fires of Kusbass” -Kemerovo, “Dvorzovaya, 26” - St-Patersburg), Europe (“Bridges” “Literature European” - Frankfurt), USA (“Slovo-Word” - New York), stories and few books in English (“Absinthe” – Michigan; “Xlibris” – Indiana) Lives and works in New York.

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