The novel Aleksandar i smrtta – 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 destiny of his close ones, his people, his epoch, as well as the entire human history. Mickovic’s novel speaks about the illusion and the hope of great people to carve a solid, lasting, eternal constructions out of frail human material. With a well-chosen language, gnomic sentences and suggestive power – as if the readers are witnessing the dramatic ancient events in Babylon themselves – Mickovic paints the drama and the breakdown of Alexander’s Macedonian Empire, but also the numerous lively characters with shaky destinies. Alexander and Death is a wise, seductive and unforgettable novel.
The novel has been translated and published in French, Greek and Serbian.