Translated from this contemporary Russian master piece set in medieval europe the protagonist works out his relationship with the divine through his love grief and guilt for his dead wife the natural world and his orthodox faith
I can’t sum it up. It’s both earthy and spiritual, repelling and intriguing , ugly and beautiful.
So full of wonderfully expressed wisdom.
One of the beautiful pieces of wisdom that appeals to me:
“You have dissolved yourself in God. You disrupted the unity of your life, renouncing your name and your very identity. But in the mosaic of your life there is also something that joins all those separate parts: it is an aspiration for Him. They will gather together again in Him.”
“He was not lonely because he did not feel that people had abandoned him. He sensed everyone he had ever met as if they were present.
They continued a quiet life in his soul, regardless of whether they had gone off to another world or were still alive.”
Written by Eugene Vodolazkin