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The Book / The Writer
| Author: | Zoran Zivkovic |
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Prime Books, 2003 |
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| Book Type: | Omnibus |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
The Book - a translation from the Serbian of the novel Knjiga (1999)
Longlisted for the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly," of human manias and absurdities, here, in a similar kind of double-talk, the books themselves "speak," those monuments to our intelligence, ambitions and self-importance, and they primarily "speak" by making an analogy between man's fate and that of books--to man's detriment, of course.
The Writer - a translation from the Serbian of the novella Pisac (1998)
A Very Short Novel, without Chapters, about Writing and Darkness
Where does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration, a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse, or a unique gift granted by demonic forces to penetrate the darkness and see beyond it? Two fundamental principles of the most noble of all arts are in the permanent collision, surrounded by the contagious environment of the authors' vanity, envy, malice.
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