About the book: 2011 / "A strange premonition does not leave me. With the tips of my nerves, my skin and something else unknown, I feel the approach of a new life. And not even a new one, but simply life - because everything that happened before the moments when I write these lines was an illusion, a mirage, a sketch written with invisible colors. And real life, in the flesh and in dignity, is about to begin... This premonition settled in me a long time ago, and in anticipation of a new life, I hastened to capture, as best I can, everything that happened. Or maybe it wasn’t.” Roman Kofman “Roman Kofman is truly one of the best interpretive conductors in the world” Telegraph, UK This book presents two stories by Roman Kofman, a poet, writer, conductor, violinist, composer, director and teacher. Both stories are united by one structural idea: in each of them the reader is offered two, at first glance, independent niches; their mutual collision and mutual attraction occurs at a level remote from mundane events, ultimately leading to catharsis. We thank the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany for participating in the publication of the book.