My Adventures After Death (A Superb Russian Novel)
"Julia Voznesenskaya . . . [writes] about our life after death, the knowledge of which is kept by the patristic experience and the Tradition of the Orthodox Church." — Olga Golosova
This book, My Adventures After Death, is an attempt to convey the good news to the reader that we were not created to die. The fact that our life has a meaning, and all the people who have ever lived on our land have not disappeared without a trace. That we too “will not die by death”, because for a person death is not destruction, but a transition to another life — life after death.
There are many ways and techniques to appeal to the human soul, to call it to comprehend its further destiny. Fiction has always been one of the first in terms of impact. A book can have a huge impact on thoughts and feelings, the heroes of your favorite books are imprinted in one's heart for a long time.
That is why many writers choose an artistic word to express their thoughts, clothing their experiences in artistic images that they can share with the reader.
My Adventures After Death is an attempt to captivate us with reflections on the brevity of human memory and the scarcity of our knowledge of the secrets of the soul. In terms of genre and style, it is perhaps closest to the wonderful, good Christian books of C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce and The Screwtape Letters, or to the books of our contemporary writer Nikolai Blokhin, Deep Mire and Grandmother's Glass.
The genre of these books can be designated as "Christian fantasy", but only conditionally, because what is narrated in them is not a fiction, but a symbolic story about spiritual reality.
Miracles and amazing events taking place with the main heroine of the book are woven from real episodes that took place in the life of the author of My Adventures After Death, and her loved ones. Julia Voznesenskaya resorts to artistic images, metaphors, comparisons, trying to convey the feelings of the soul that meets God. The fate of the heroine of Anna's book is an unpretentious invention of the author, and an attempt, in the form of a parable, to tell the reader about our life after death, the knowledge of which is kept by the patristic experience and the Tradition of the Orthodox Church.
My Adventures After Death urges each of us to think about the significance and purpose of earthly life, to realize the responsibility for every thought and deed, to evaluate our life according to our conscience and in the light of the commandments of the Lord.
Thanks to the efforts of Kimberly Gleason, the full novel has been translated into English, and is available here:
My Adventures After Death
As a subscriber to Substack, the thing I like most is the ability to listen (vs. read) articles. I wish there was a way to listen to this book your wife has translated.....is there possibly any way to get that?