The Great War
The Great War is an epic yet contemporary novel about the greatest historical turning point at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is not merely a portrait of an extraordinary number of human destinies, but a compelling depiction of the collapse of hope for a happy future for humanity. Amid these harrowing events, a […]
Ervin and the Madmen
The novels The Second-Hand Man and Ervin and the Madmen form a semantic and structural whole. This “black duology” is entirely devoted to the analysis of “negative existence.” At its center stands a man on the threshold of his fifties who has “grown tired of being human,” tired of living by the standards of others, and who feverishly seeks […]
The Fifth Boat
The Fifth Boat is a dramatic story about unhappy, prematurely adolescent children who avoid the people closest to them so that they can create their own secret world. A tale of twelve-year-old Jarka who lives with her very young mother in the suburbs, a woman with little interest in being a mother and only a teenager […]
Mocking Desire
Ko gre Gregor Gradnik na enoletno izmenjavo kot učitelj kreativnega pisanja iz srednje-evropske, nedavno komunistične Slovenije v Ameriko, se njegovo življenje postavi na glavo. Ne le zaradi krute ameriške realnosti, s katero se sooči v vročih karnevalskih nočeh New Orleansa, ne le zaradi čudaštva profesorja Blaumanna, ki piše nikoli zaključeno delo o melanholiji, ne le […]
My Name is Damjan
Damian sits in the self-help group of troubled teenage boys and girls and finally tells them and us the story of his bitter-sweet life. His path of searching for his true self and love begins with the change of his name and continues through conflicts within the family and therapy sessions with his psychologist. Actually […]
The Women of Lazarus
Lazarjeve ženske so očarljiva zgodba o ljubezni, izgubi in človeški genialnosti. Prične se kmalu po oktobrski revoluciji, ko zelo nadarjen študent Lazar Lindt prispe v Moskvo, s seboj pa ima le uši in beležko. Roman pripoveduje Lazarjevo življenjsko zgodbo, pri čemer zasleduje usode treh zanj pomembnim žensk žene njegovega mentorja, njegove mlade žene in njune vnukinje. […]
Alexander and Death
The novel Alexander and Death takes the highest place in Macedonian contemporary fiction. It is a great work of art with high aspirations and with an ambitious, major theme. It is a novel about the drama and the tragedy of a genius, who imprints this drama, this genius and tragedy irrevocably onto the life and the […]
Excercises for Ibn Pajko
In the last ten years, Olivera Nikolova created several notable accomplishments in fiction, among which Excercises for Ibn Pajko takes a special place. This is a book which ensures that man is a mystical, secretive and exciting creature that hides desires, joys and sadness deeply inside, and these are all an absolute constant regardless of exterior circumstances […]
The Traveller
Recognizable even in the Yugoslav frameworks as a master of short stories, with his only novel Putnik – The Traveller, Sreten Asanović enriched the Montenegrin novelistic production with the text made in the best tradition of the picaresque novel. Narrated in the first person, as an autobiographical statement of the main character, the novel Putnik follows the […]
The Last Horse of Pompeii
The Last Horse of Pompeii is a narration about the Central European identity confronted with the contemporary world reality. The book is playful, witty, with dark humor, a sad account of the world we live in. As in some of his previous books, Vilikovský unmasks mythicised features of Slovak nation. The narrator of the story, a young […]