Ervin in norci
Ervin in norci so nadaljevanje romana Polovnjak, s katerim predstavljata pomensko in oblikovno celoto. Roman se vrtinči okoli nasprotja Normalno/Noro. Avtor z genialnimi zasuki v grotesknih prigodah gospoda Lakošte, ki ponekod zdrsne v tragikomičnost, spretno odkriva meje človekove svobode in raziskuje posledice izbrane poti. Ob tem zagovarja hipotezo, da je zavestna izbira nesreče edina možnost, s katero […]
Peta barka
Peta barka je zgodba dvanajstletne Jarke, ki živi na obrobju mesta s svojo zelo mlado mamo. Tej je materinstvo odveč. Ko se je otrok rodil, je bila najstnica in nikoli mu ni namenjala posebne pozornosti ali izkazovala ljubezni. Jarka mora skrbeti zase, dolge ure preživlja sama v stanovanju in se potika po naselju. Vse se […]
Posmehljivo poželenje
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 […]
Ime mi je 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 […]
Lazarjeve ženske
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 […]
Aleksander in smrt
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 […]
Vaje za Ibn Pajka
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 […]
Poslednji konj Pompejev
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 […]
Auschwitz Café
Auschwitz Café povezuje raznotere zvrsti: znanstveno fantastiko, napeto kriminalko, medicinsko srhljivko, pastiš, kibernetično seanso (v navidezni resničnosti), akcijsko avanturo, politično grozljivko in celo ščepec ljubezenskega romana. Seže tudi k vizualnim predstavam (TV-serija Dosjeji X v poglavju Fox Mulder), ki v bralčevi zavesti učinkujejo kot nekakšne memorizirane polslike. Napovedi, ki jih sporoča Auschwitz Café, spominjajo na pandemične […]