Figures of the One Must Go: Symbolical Logo-roots Book One

by Victor Living

Overview

Figures of the One Must Go is a book that dares you to read it. This modernist philosophical work adopts a playful attitude with the words within. Words evolve, multiply, surprise, and delight in this chronicle of the four different paths of life. Are you brave enough to walk down the philosophical path, the psychological path, the political path, and the lyrical path? Each one presents challenging ideas about the nature of life and the long history of the human race. While these ideas have serious ramifications, author Victor Living never loses his love of language. His unique voice keeps the conversation going and makes the speaker feel like an old friend.

Even the name "Victor Living" is a play on words, it's a symbolical name-creation. Living's intent, through the conversations he imagines between disparate actors on the world's stage, is to ask you what "living" truly means to you. To help you find an answer, Living looks both into the past and to the future. From a poignant flashback to the 9/11 attacks to childhood ruminations, Living's experimental work will speak to your heart and open your mind to new ideas and possibilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975982713
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	01/03/2018
Series:	Symbolical Logo-Roots Book One , #1
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Victor Living was born in Ukraine but spent the past twenty-five years in the United States. He received his master's degrees in philology and law from the University in Lvov. Upon immigration to America, he completed the special education master's program at Touro College in Brooklyn, New York.

Living worked in the hazardous materials industry as an asbestos supervisor and was one of the many crew members working at Ground Zero after the 9/11 terrorist attack.

After a life-threatening injury in 2010, Living devoted himself to writing full time. He now lives in Florida, where he is working on the next book in his series.

Editorial Reviews

2018-02-17
A debut philosophical book examines life in modern times. Living explains at the outset of this short yet extensive work that readers have opened something with "nontraditional writing and a peculiar name." While the latter part of the statement is immediately evident, the former becomes obvious the instant readers bear down on the content. This series opener is organized into "Paths," marked "Philosophical," "Psychological," "Political," and "Lyrical"; each features musings, dialogues, and allusions to everything from World War II and Vatican City to human cloning. While the views of others are incorporated, the volume focuses on the author's meandering thought process. On the topic of gay marriage (in the "Psychological Path"), Living asserts: "I hope it would be a share of thoughts why today's idea about male marriage works like a magnet to moot concepts." On the subject of the death of one's parents (part of the "Philosophical Path"), there is the revelation that "even if you are a hot believer in God, today like a first time in life you show zealous protest by differing this death." Understanding what the author means by such comments can prove a challenge. Although context clues provide some clarity, the writing style creates a host of difficulties. For example, the line "It's like people's millennium tradition: when the important novelty gets closer, no one afraid" is a puzzle. What is the "people's millennium tradition"? What is an "important novelty" and is it true that no one is afraid when it gets closer? This is not to say that the work lacks potency. Crime and punishment are deftly explored with the idea that "if somebody likes to see punitive actions, there may be many reasons, but he would never agree that he does it for emotional balance." A rendition of one man's experience working in a cleanup operation following the 9/11 attacks in New York City is quite touching, particularly with the image of an area "blanket-covered by the black glass up to the fifty-fourth floor facing Towers Place." The great hurdle for readers will be to separate such astuteness from more confounding commentary. Doing so provides plenty of remarkable takeaways, though this sifting is far from an easy task.A dense philosophical work that delivers striking moments and some hazy prose.

Kirkus Reviews