monkilok
10-27-2015, 10:16 AM
Hello
I must admit that my English is too far from perfect so please excuse the mistakes in this letter!
I am Plamen and I am from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This February the American publishing house Neverland Publishing released Flaws of Oblivion – an anthology of poetry, prose and photography that showcases the talents of four emerging writers from around the world as well as some of my works.
I am so honored and excited to be a part of this project! Such international initiative is twice as important to me as it is to the other authors. As I said – I am from Bulgaria. It is a poor country and on top of it all the Bulgarian transition to democracy is encountering abnormally severe turbulence. Our market is so limited and sluggish that it destines the new and independent Bulgarian writers to misery.
As I said – my English is too far from perfect. The translation of my prose was tough and desperate act and I truly believe that the interest of Neverland Publishing is a sign! My work with them is like a raft amongst the waves of spiteful hypocrisy and groundless vanity.
I would like to invite you to read Flaws of Oblivion and share your thoughts! You sure know how important the reviews are… And this is my only chance to provoke a miracle, you know, to succeed with my ideas, writing and emotions regardless of the sullen Bulgarian reality. If I deserve it of course but this is something that you can decide.
Thank you either way!
EXCERPT / THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
The dried leaves are beautiful but dead. They rot and turn into food for plants that give birth to new leaves in turn. But these new leaves are different to the old ones. Living matter absorbing the organic energy of dead matter.
Life takes care of the masses, the individual is not a priority. Even if there is a God, He certainly does not respond to one particular person. And neither does God wait on the individual’s response.
Human beings experience reincarnation—but as energy, not as personality or consciousness.
What I feel at this very moment, it is the be-all and end-all for me. “After” will never exist. So am I obliged to be responsible or am I supposed to be a greedy egoist?
If indeed there is no justice after death… Then fear disappears, morality is meaningless and good loses its illusory value. The saints turn into fools and laughing stocks in the eyes of alcoholics like me, drunkards stammering incomprehensibly in the bubbling ditches of life.
A man cannot be of full value to himself during his lifetime. A man disappears after death. In a man there is no sense at all and the circle of life is even more greedy than our selves.
Fear or happiness…
Parenting or impulse…
Primitive stupidity or vain self-destruction…
― Plamen Chetelyazov, Flaws of Oblivion
I must admit that my English is too far from perfect so please excuse the mistakes in this letter!
I am Plamen and I am from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This February the American publishing house Neverland Publishing released Flaws of Oblivion – an anthology of poetry, prose and photography that showcases the talents of four emerging writers from around the world as well as some of my works.
I am so honored and excited to be a part of this project! Such international initiative is twice as important to me as it is to the other authors. As I said – I am from Bulgaria. It is a poor country and on top of it all the Bulgarian transition to democracy is encountering abnormally severe turbulence. Our market is so limited and sluggish that it destines the new and independent Bulgarian writers to misery.
As I said – my English is too far from perfect. The translation of my prose was tough and desperate act and I truly believe that the interest of Neverland Publishing is a sign! My work with them is like a raft amongst the waves of spiteful hypocrisy and groundless vanity.
I would like to invite you to read Flaws of Oblivion and share your thoughts! You sure know how important the reviews are… And this is my only chance to provoke a miracle, you know, to succeed with my ideas, writing and emotions regardless of the sullen Bulgarian reality. If I deserve it of course but this is something that you can decide.
Thank you either way!
EXCERPT / THE CIRCLE OF LIFE
The dried leaves are beautiful but dead. They rot and turn into food for plants that give birth to new leaves in turn. But these new leaves are different to the old ones. Living matter absorbing the organic energy of dead matter.
Life takes care of the masses, the individual is not a priority. Even if there is a God, He certainly does not respond to one particular person. And neither does God wait on the individual’s response.
Human beings experience reincarnation—but as energy, not as personality or consciousness.
What I feel at this very moment, it is the be-all and end-all for me. “After” will never exist. So am I obliged to be responsible or am I supposed to be a greedy egoist?
If indeed there is no justice after death… Then fear disappears, morality is meaningless and good loses its illusory value. The saints turn into fools and laughing stocks in the eyes of alcoholics like me, drunkards stammering incomprehensibly in the bubbling ditches of life.
A man cannot be of full value to himself during his lifetime. A man disappears after death. In a man there is no sense at all and the circle of life is even more greedy than our selves.
Fear or happiness…
Parenting or impulse…
Primitive stupidity or vain self-destruction…
― Plamen Chetelyazov, Flaws of Oblivion