Introducing Mr. Blok

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Mr. Blok, which was written by my father, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, was published posthumously by Adelaide Books. Excerpts from my introduction in the book are below.

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Hidden Artistic Treasures

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Announcement of Gregor Piatigorsky’s 1940 American Tour. Click to enlarge.

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Announcement of Gregor Piatigorsky’s 1940 American Tour

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My father wrote Mr. Blok at the prime of his illustrious cello career. I was very young and didn’t read the manuscript until last year. At some point many years ago I asked Papa why he didn’t publish it. “Because if I did,” he said, “both you and your sister Jephta would be expelled from school!” Doubtful, I thought, but he said nothing more.

Time passed and Papa died from lung cancer in 1976; he was 73. The manuscript languished in my mother’s house for 50 more years. When she died at 100 in 2012, I found several copies of the typed manuscript, which I gathered along with Papa’s other writings, including short stories, essays, poems, limericks and even the beginning of a second volume of his autobiography, Cellist. He often wrote on scraps of hotel stationery on his numerous travels concertizing.

Papa was well-known for being a spellbinding raconteur, often exaggerating and twisting reality into new shapes and sizes, and this talent jumps out of everything he wrote. Mr. Blok has many examples of tangential episodes and scenes that are typical of Papa’s storytelling. The story radiates in various directions echoing Papa as he spoke in overlapping circles of free associations. These digressions enrich the novel greatly.

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Evolving Storylines

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Gregor Piatigorsky's handwritten notes regarding his novel, Mr. Blok

Papa wrote in cracks of time while keeping a robust concert schedule.

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Papa’s handwritten notes about Mr. Blok. Click to enlarge.

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Mr. Blok was written in English and the present version has not been altered. I am unaware that Papa ever had a professional editor. He read his novel as it progressed to Adele Friedman (today Adele Siegal), who typed the manuscript from her shorthand notes. I asked Adele, now in her nineties, about her experience typing Mr. Blok. She said that she first met with Papa to type the beginning of Mr. Blok in Philadelphia shortly before we moved to Los Angeles in 1949. Papa would have been 46. She told me that Papa dictated from his notes, and between his accent, the weird story and her awe at being in the presence of the famous musician she was “totally flummoxed.” She typed the manuscript from her shorthand notes and continued to meet with Papa to type the novel as it progressed in the 1950s. Adele has remained a treasured friend of our family.

I recognize Blok as a tormented fantasy of Papa, an original anti-hero bursting with ambition, flipping back and forth between exuberant inspiration and waves of sadness verging on despair. My friend Barbara Esstman, an author and editor, said that Mr. Blok sounded like “the French Symbolists poets got together to write a novel. Or maybe Kafka and Gogol went drinking together…very dreamlike and surreal… so well-written and the intelligence and artistic sensibility of the author…so astronomical.”

Predicting Future Surprises

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Photo of Gregor Piatigorsky in front of the ocean

Papa was fascinated by nature, real and imagined

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Papa was fascinated by nature, real and imagined. Click to enlarge.

[/fusion_modal_text_link]Blok is surprising in many ways, not the least of which is his extensive knowledge of little-known subjects. For example, he spoke of many uncommon animals: barbirusa, arapaima, notornis, grison and guanaco, to name a few. Blok also mentioned in passing numerous terms, places, names, tribes and the like that didn’t sound like Papa to me, such as [fusion_tooltip title=”A threnody is a wailing ode, song, hymn or poem of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.” class=”” id=”” placement=”top” trigger=”hover”]threnody[/fusion_tooltip], Baha U’Ulah, Art College of Bocquet, Caodaist priest in Indochina, howdah, Havasupai, on and on. I never heard Papa mention such animals or topics or use such sophisticated vocabulary. However, I confirmed each animal and term and place that was foreign to me and found it correct. Where did Papa obtain all this knowledge? Perhaps he picked it up during his extensive travels from friends and admirers, or perhaps in diverse books, although he never mentioned these to me.

Blok’s runaway imagination, mixed with humor and absurdity, pervades the novel and is sometimes prophetic for its era. Unwittingly, he predicts pollution of Earth when he says, “Our stomachs have shrunk, and yet our excrement has increased, polluting all our rivers and lakes, rendering the life of fish impossible and our water undrinkable.” I read recently that a quarter of the planet is experiencing severe water shortages.

Blok also anticipates modern conveniences, some consistent with computers: he speaks of self-driving cars that have television screens behind the driver’s seat, protections against collisions and can recognize red and green lights. His fancy new car has innovations even beyond what presently exist.

Artistic Connections Transcend Time

Mr. Blok by Ismael Carrillo for Notes Going Underground by Joram Piatigorsky.

Finally, I felt an eerie connection with Papa filtered through Blok, especially at the end of the novel, when I recalled reading The First Man by Albert Camus. The autobiographical novel, found in the wrecked car in which Camus was killed, was published posthumously 34 years later. The story is about Jacques Comery’s, Camus’ alter-ego, childhood in Algeria, with an underlying theme of searching for his father. In a telling passage, Jacque, 40, stands by the grave of his father, who died at 29, he feels the crumbling of the internal statue he erected of his own identity, realizing that he is the continuation of his father’s life. In my case, I was struck by the similarity of the surreal characters that exist in my recent short story collection, Notes Going Underground, and Blok. Although I had never read Mr. Blok, written by Papa when I was a boy, I created independently literary characters years later that exist, absurdly and surreally, in a transition between being partially alive and partially dead – in a dreamworld, as it were – as if a porous barrier separates the two states resulting in an overlapping period between life and death. Were Blok’s surreal, often absurd adventures real or a dream? Blok asks the same question when the novel opens with him in a ditch:

“Mr. Blok thought it was a dream; but he must have been wrong. He walked through the Square one night and arriving at 20th Street, fell into a ditch they were digging for sewer pipes or something.”

How strange, and comforting, to find my mind gravitating to a similar hideout with Papa’s.

The Open Door to New Perspectives

Whether Blok is dead or alive, or awake or dreaming, I believe that you, like me, will – as Papa writes in the Forward – “find Mr. Blok a likable fellow, who will not mind in the slightest being put aside, should he not succeed in holding your attention.”

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Video Introduction

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Easily convert your video to text with Sonix.">Mr-Blok_Launch-RC2a.mp4 transcript powered by Sonix—easily convert your video to text with Sonix.</a></h2><p style="font-size:14px!important;color:#3E3E3B!important;text-decoration:none!important;display:block;"><a href="https://sonix.ai/automated-transcription" style="text-decoration:none;color:#3E3E3B;" target="_blank" title="Automated transcription by Sonix: Best speech-to-text converter">Mr-Blok_Launch-RC2a.mp4 was automatically transcribed by Sonix with the latest audio-to-text algorithms. </a>This transcript may contain errors. <a href="https://sonix.ai/transcribe-video?utm_source=embedplayer" style="text-decoration:none;color:#3E3E3B;" target="_blank" title="Sonix is the best video automated transcription service in 2020.">Sonix is the best video automated transcription service in 2020. </a><a href="https://sonix.ai/speech-to-text-all-supported-file-formats?utm_source=embedplayer" style="text-decoration:none;color:#3E3E3B;" target="_blank" title="Our automated transcription algorithms works with many of the popular video file formats.">Our automated transcription algorithms works with many of the popular video file formats. </a></p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;"><strong>Joram Piatigorsky: </strong><br />Although I&#39;m very sorry not to be here today, I&#39;m excited that after 70 years of languishing as a manuscript, my father&#39;s novel, &quot;Mr. Blok&quot;, is finally published and is being launched today at this festival in his honor where he lived and taught at USC. I&#39;m especially grateful to Stevan Nikolic and Adelaide Books for publishing the novel, along with an introduction by me, as well as my father&#39;s thoughts about the book that I&#39;ve found among his papers in my mother&#39;s estate. I&#39;m also grateful to the USC organizers of this festival, including Dean Robert Cutietta and Ralph Kirshbaum for this launch and for making the book available throughout the festival. Along with my memoir, &quot;The Speed of Dark&quot; and newly published short stories, &quot;Notes Going Underground&quot;, both of which provide some personal thoughts relevant directly or indirectly to &quot;Mr. Blok&quot;. My father started writing &quot;Mr. Blok&quot; when he took a sabbatical from concertizing in the late 1940s and continued working on it for a number of years thereafter. The introduction to the book states how he wanted to do something he had never done before, in which he had nothing to do with the cello or music.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;"><strong>Joram: </strong><br />So he decided to write a novel in English, not his native Russian, and &quot;Mr. Blok&quot; is the result. And here is &quot;Mr. Blok&quot; itself as a cover. I was extremely happy to find a photograph from the 1930s when my father was either in his late 20s or middle 30s some time and is on this cover. So that is this is what is a picture of my father actually writing. It&#39;s surprising that he never published it, since apparently the eminent writers Robert Penn Warren and Aldous Huxley read the manuscript at some point and both recommended publication. What my father told me is that he could not publish the book as long as my sister Jephta and I were in school because we would be expelled. Somehow I doubt that would have happened. The novel is wildly imaginative, surrealistic, cynical and full of humor. According to my father&#39;s own words, Mr. Blok is the real him, not as a musician, but as the unique person he was. Mr. Blok is an artist like my father, but a famous painter, not a cellist, with talent and ambitions and imagination and torments that resonate with the memories I have of my father. </p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;"><strong>Joram: </strong><br />Like my father, Mr.Blok was an immigrant who fled his native country and had great tension with his own father. Many of Mr. Blok&#39;s adventures throughout the novel are strikingly similar to my father&#39;s life. As I read &quot;Mr. Blok,&quot; I heard my father&#39;s voice in many references to biology in particular, such as when Blok asks, &quot;Is it true that African elephants can stand for centuries on their feet?&quot; And when Blok says, &quot;like a speeding squid, the sperm whale will catch it and tear it to pieces.&quot; Surprisingly, Mr. Blok spews out names of uncommon animals that I never heard my father mention, such as barbirusa, arapaima, notornis and grison, and refers to esoteric societies in different parts of the world. I looked up each one and they&#39;re all correct. &quot;Mr. Blok&quot; is filled with information I had no idea that my father had. &quot;Mr. Blok&quot; is also prophetic for the present times, such as forewarning of pollution of the Earth, rendering the life of fish impossible, says Blok, and our water undrinkable. And speaking of cars that have protections against collisions and that recognize red and green lights. For me, Mr. Blok is an extraordinary character, as was my father.</p><p style="font-size: 14px;color: #3E3E3B;text-decoration: none;">There is far more in this novel than I could possibly describe here, and I hope and believe that my father would be pleased that it will now be shared with his many friends and admirers. 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