Guri Stark
Without Art & Music Life Would Be A Serious Mistake
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Poetic Conspiracy
1973 was a bad year for Professor Freidman. Being politically opinionated
he was influenced by the Nixon Watergate Scandal. Being Jewish he was
influenced by Israel’s Yom Kippur War. But more importantly, his life
completely changed when in the same year he lost two critical people in his
life – his beloved wife Laura to cancer, and Picasso, his idol who died in
April of that year.
Five years later this professor of art history decided to get out of his
melancholy life style and move to Paris to look for evidence for his theory
that in addition to painting, sculpture and ceramics, Picasso also wrote
poetry.
The move to Paris reinvigorated him and connected him with Theresa, a
new friend and lover who shared his passion for Picasso art. But their
search for Picasso poetry and the tracks they uncovered led them right into
a dangerous trap set up by the brutal Russian mafia czar Alexander Rozov.
In addition to being notorious for merciless violence throughout Europe,
Rozov had a soft side – his love of art. And ever since Picasso died in 1973,
he used his world-wide mafia network to confiscate Picasso art and
transport it to a private shrine for Picasso that he had built in Russia. A
secret, personal art museum that he has not shared with anybody.
The story takes us through a fact-finding journey all over Europe, from
Paris to Toulouse to Antwerp to Cologne to Passau and to an undisclosed
location in Communist Russia. While discovering details about Picasso’s
poetry we also discover the intricate lives of Professor Freidman, his wife
Laura and his new exotic lover Theresa. All of this culminates in a climactic
intersection between Professor Freidman and Alexander Rozov. And as the
two men teach each other about art and about Picasso, it surprisingly feels
like they have more in common than was expected.
The story moves in a fast pace while mixing beautifully developed
characters, delicately told life stories, historical facts about Picasso’s life
and art and geographical journey facts, all leading to a surprising end where
the past and the future connect to deliver a heart breaking conclusion.
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