Confession of a Ghost. F.M. Dostoevsky award. Playing Another Reality

Confession of a Ghost. F.M. Dostoevsky award. Playing Another Reality
Alexandra Kryuchkova

Wandering in the Other World before and after the incarnation of the soul, with ghosts, magicians and representatives of the Forces of Light and Darkness, through the Labyrinth of Destiny, written in the heavenly passport, and passing 40 steps of the Staircase in both directions, the reader finds himself in the Matrix, the existence of which is no longer in doubt. Will the ghost, stuck on the border with the Holy Mount Athos, be heard or doomed to share the bitter fate of the familiar sorcerer?

Confession of a Ghost

F.M. Dostoevsky award. Playing Another Reality

Alexandra Kryuchkova

Translated by A. A. Kryuchkova

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CONFESSION OF A GHOST

or “BEFORE and AFTER. 40 STEPS of NON – EXISTENCE.
MATRIX of the SPACE of TIME”

a novel in the “PLAYING ANOTHER REALITY” series,

the winner of the following literary competitions and awards:

·  “The ORTHODOX SOUL” 2022
(Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia
with NP “Literary Republic”)

·  F.M. DOSTOEVSKY, “LIFE SUFFOCATES WITHOUT A GOAL” 2021
(Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia)

·  “RUSSIA-GREECE. The 21

Century” 2020
within the framework of the Russia-Greece Cross Year
of Language and Culture 2019—2020
(NP “Literary Republic”)

·  D.L. ANDREEV, “CREATOR of the WORLDS” 2019
(Open Literary Club “Response”)

ABOUT THE BOOK

S. Il. Rudakova, “Another Reality is the prose of our life”

The prose of Alexandra Kryuchkova amazes with the art of mastering the Word, the natural spirituality of the events described, the original author’s style, not abstruse, but natural penetration into Another Reality, which is intertwined with the earthly reality in the journey of the soul, led through the labyrinths of destiny by its Guardian Angel.

The novel “Confession of a Ghost”, a book with a surprisingly delicate interweaving of the threads of a unique canvas, wonderful literary language and self-irony of the author, with a non-standard plot and an unpredictable ending in which “all guns go off”, intrigues from the moment you read the annotation.

The novel was very accurately described by Vladimir G. Boyarinov, Chairman of the Moscow city organization of the Union of Writers of Russia, during the awarding Alexandra Kryuchkova with the F. M. Dostoevsky Prize “Life suffocates without a goal”,

“Today we have the presentation of Alexandra Kryuchkova, a writer, poet, mystic, philosopher… and her book we have already written about, ‘Confession of a Ghost’. And it’s in a new cover, because this is another edition, since the book is a real boom, a boom in the book market, which we have not seen for a long time! Alexandra Kryuchkova never ceases to amaze us, summoning heralds of her mystical discoveries for revelations. The Ghost lurking under the new cover is no longer just broadcasting, it confesses its truths.”

Yes, exactly, the truths! Since it’s about the inevitable triumph of the human Spirit, the Forces of Light and Good.

“A modern novel, but it’s timeless as well. It contains many wise thoughts, if not truths. It is light and deep at the same time. Fabulous and realistic. There are no idealized characters and axioms in it, but it radiates the invisible light of the Other World. While reading, in parallel and somehow automatically, you revise your life, taking that very step aside. One gets the values revised and an irresistible desire for radical changes in one’s own matrix.”

    V. V. Morozov

And let the reader not be afraid of the fact that we are on the territory of Another Reality unknown to us!

“Obviously, the author is engaged in the study of Another Reality with a methodical approach close to scientific, and her work in this area, as well as on the paradoxical properties of the Word, is comparable to the activities of an entire scientific research institute… The path of a mortal, prescribed in Heaven, seems fatally predetermined, however, the author reveals the possibilities of the Spirit in the most incorrigible circumstances and, together with representatives of the Forces of Light, extends a helping hand to all her readers!”

    V. G. Shyltzin

At the same time, the language of all characters, even ghosts, is equally precise and understandable to the reader, despite the use by the author of a special vocabulary of spiritual, astrological, esoteric and other specific terms. It is amazing how easily the thread of Ariadne unfolds in search of truth and love, and the more attractive is to try on the stories of the main character Alice and find your own too.

“It would seem to be a combination of the incompatible – icons and the starry Sky, the experiences of a living person and a wandering soul, our reality and its other dimensions, hidden behind the words ‘somewhere in the Universe’. In simple and understandable words, the author makes it possible to realize the structure of the Universe and ‘become conscious’ in our reality. The earthly destiny of the main character, stories from the Library of the Universe, conversations with planetary spirits, a journey through the Spheres, walks on Athos and conversations with its inhabitants are intricately interwoven into a single narrative with an original plot and an unpredictable denouement!”

    V. V. Morozov

However, the novel got noticed back in 2019, after its first edition under the title “Before and After. 40 steps of Non-existence, or the Matrix of Time Space. Confession of a Ghost”, and the reviews of the first readers were included in the preface to the second edition.

“This novel is an event in literature. The novel-symphony. The genius novel (I’m not afraid of this word!). So multifaceted and polyphonic that I got scary – what if something (with such a volume) would not link into a single whole. But each thread is woven into the carpet so harmoniously, subtly, logically and in such a simple human language that it causes sincere admiration and respect! I read it twice. The first time – in pursuit of the plot, like a mystical detective, excitedly, I could not stop, and then I breathed out and re-read it slowly, savoring the details. Having reached a certain phrase of the Guardian, suddenly, I got an insight! – I realized my destiny on Earth! My whole life scrolled instantly, and I realized what I was doing here! I wanted to cry with happiness! I thank the author for her Word, that awakens us from sleep and works such miracles!”

    E.V. Erofeeva-Litvinskaya

Miracles are always around, but we often don’t pay attention to them. The prose by A. Kryuchkova is not just wonderful, but musical and cinematic. Sooner or later, Alexandra’s novels and stories will be filmed, I’m sure, and I’m not the only one.

“The author not just knows the world of the Other Space well, but masters it perfectly, lives in it, feels like a fish in water and is a real fount of knowledge. The further along you read, the more obvious the autobiographical style appears, along with talented and very light fantasy techniques. Thankfully, the dark and evil takes up less space in the novel! This is a kindly light book, without vulgarity and dirt. For those who prefer real literature, who are ready to discover something new, look at the world with an inquisitive eye, to experience and co-feel, to read between the lines and draw the appropriate conclusions for themselves… Moonlight Sonata, the background music, is used very successfully! Sounding almost imperceptiblyat first, it gradually reaches a crescendo and covers you with your head… In general, the plot is so multifaceted that it creates confidence in the necessity to publish the book not only in our country, but abroad as well! And even better, with a film version!”

    In. K. Butorina

The cover of the first edition of the novel was the “Ladder” icon painted on Athos (in Greece) with the blessing especially for this book, and in August 2019 the first version of the novel (subsequently edited and shortened by the author) was handed over by A. Kryuchkova with a dedicatory inscription to Archimandrite Evlogii (Ivanov), the head of the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon on Athos, to the local history museum of Ouranoupoli and to the house-museum of the local poetess and writer Joice Mary NanKivell Lock (one of the characters).

“The close connection with Orthodox childhood and later heartfelt love for Greek Athos is also reflected in the novel ‘Confession of a Ghost’, the central part of which is occupied by Athos stories and stories of local residents, as well as stories about the Saints and the wonders of their icons, recorded by the author during her trips to Ouranoupoli village, situated on the border with the Holy Mountain.”

    M. Palshyna