Leonard Oprea

The Daily Agony of Theophil Magus: Jazz & Blues Haiku Novel for Anna-maria Leonard Oprea

Author s Confession:

The Daily Agony of Theophil Magus
Jazz & Blues Haiku Novel for Anna-Maria

Dear Reader,

In the beginning of the twenty-one century, year 2011, somewhere in the North-East of the USA s Promised Land of Loneliness, there is a dwarfish State where, more or less, the people s life is flowing under the irrefutable conclusion of the officer from Kafka s Penal Colony : Guilt is always beyond any doubt . Yes, this is the supreme commandment. Yes, the almighty State and its Police & Justice rule everything and everyone. Human kind and Nature, as well. Personal life, family, children, alas! children; culture and religion are no more than some ridiculous ghosts of a lost free-world . . .

For a genuine artist the daily life here is nothing else but an endless swamp of sadness, distress and finally, death.

How could you describe such a tragic reality using the way of a classic or contemporary novel? For me - no doubt - the normal way . . . definitely is a dead end.

Therefore - I used again the Haiku (yes, this is my second Haiku Novel; the first one I published in 2007 under the title: Theophil Magus in Baton Rouge - a Haiku Novel ).

Dear Reader, you have here almost 170 haiku composing the novel of the daily agony of Theophil Magus inside that dwarfish State of the USA s Promised Land of Loneliness.

Yet, now you have something never made before in the literature worldwide: also, you have almost 170 jazz and blues masterpieces of great musicians . . . No question, I offer you almost 170 jazz and blues pieces for almost 170 haiku . . .

Every haiku is ended and splendidly illustrated by a jazz or blues masterpiece, having the title and the name of the musician or band who performs it, as it s displayed on youtube.com. Indeed, you click on youtube.com, listen the jazz or blues masterpiece and . . . read my haiku . . .

Beyond a doubt, you will get the thrilling, you will feel your own catharsis - you will live the Daily Agony of Theophil Magus.

And - one day, probably you will be free . . .