http://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romanticsUrban Romantics are dedicated to promoting new directions in modern arts and culture. enCopyright Max Bollinger (C/O Blogtalkradio)Sat, 15 Jun 2019 01:00:00 GMTSun, 29 Jan 2012 18:00:00 GMTCultureBlogTalkRadio Feed v2.0https://dasg7xwmldix6.cloudfront.net/hostpics/1a66f734-1d9a-490d-b870-fbf92ddfef0e_ur-rose-logo3-lastfm.jpghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romanticsUrban Romantics are dedicated to promoting new directions in modern arts and culture. feeds@blogtalkradio.comBlogTalkRadio.comculture,art,artist novel,book reading,kunstlerroman,life,literature,magic,story,street artUrban RomanticsnoUrban Romantics are dedicated to promoting new directions in modern arts and culture.episodichttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romantics/2012/01/29/souls-torments-and-the-joy-of-lifeWritinghttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romantics/2012/01/29/souls-torments-and-the-joy-of-life/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romantics/2012/01/29/souls-torments-and-the-joy-of-lifeSun, 29 Jan 2012 18:00:00 GMTSoul’s torments and the joy of life We are discussing latest novel called It's Time written by one of Russia's most romantic contemporary Debut Prize writers Pavel Kostin. In our afternoon tea setting in Covent Garden here in London we have Natalie Meyer, literature critic from California who read and reviewed Pavel's latest book, James Rann who is currently translating IT'S TIME into English and your host Max Bollinger, the editor of Interactive Media and Urban Romantics.  www.urban-romantics.com   "A beautifully, lyrically crafted novel. If one could combine the contradictory ideas of a soul’s torments and the joy of life in one book – this would be the book. Coming from a young author, it was so refreshing to discover no cynicism or crude language so common to the young generation nowadays. It was a joy to read. You felt extraordinary compassion for the protagonist in his tormented quest, you rejoiced in his optimism, you were bound to feel what he felt. Just look at his description of waves coming to shore (my humble translation – the book is in Russian): 'The ubiquitous arrival of waves, one after another. It’s so calming, if you look at it. But the point is not this subtle murmur of waves. It’s the fact that after this wave there will be another, and then another. And so – forever. It never fails to calm me. Forever. Do my problems even have a meaning compared to this word…' But don’t get me wrong – it’s not just a descriptive novel of rumination: there is a plot here – skilfully designed and not resolved until the very end". - Irene Rudra, Texas, USA 00:28:00Urban Romanticsnolife,art,magic,story,literatureWe are discussing latest novel called It's Time written by one of Russia's most romantic contemporary Debut Prize writers Pavel Kostin. In our afternoon tea shttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romantics/2012/01/28/evening-with-london-based-editors-and-criticsCulturehttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romantics/2012/01/28/evening-with-london-based-editors-and-critics/#commentshttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/urban-romantics/2012/01/28/evening-with-london-based-editors-and-criticsSat, 28 Jan 2012 22:00:00 GMTBursting against the expectations In our afternoon tea setting in Covent Garden here in London we have Natalie Meyer, literature critic from California who read and reviewed Pavel's latest book, James Rann who is currently translating IT'S TIME into English and your host Max Bollinger, the editor of Interactive Media and Urban Romantics. www.urban-romantics.com This whole novel is about bursting out against a role, against the expectations laid out for us and against surroundings we've grown too comfortable in. That theme has been done before, of course, many times, the rebellion of youth against society, the need for immediacy and a return to our simple desires. But the way Kostin portrays this really struck a chord with me. Kostin often returns to his opening scene of the protagonist on the roof, watching the sunset and the horizon and the city. You begin to match it with Max's character: he is not crazy, he's just that sort of his person, that's what he does. Only later on in the novel are we forcibly brought back to that beginning and realize that there is in fact an underlying thread of urgency, an unanswered question, that Max takes it upon himself to discover, and that premeditated all of this. Much of the book is a succession of impressions, of ruminations on life, on art, on reality, on our surroundings. The protagonist, Max, is reminiscent of a Fitzgerald-type narrator, pulled in every which way and wandering through the conflict of the story. Toward the end of the novel though we get struck with a realization, one which I didn't see coming probably more because I was absorbed in the protagonist's impressions and less because it wasn't predictable. - Natalie Meyer, California, USA 00:15:00Urban RomanticsnoKunstlerroman,Urban life,artist novel,book reading,street artIn our afternoon tea setting in Covent Garden here in London we have Natalie Meyer, literature critic from California who read and reviewed Pavel's latest book