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 […]
The Fifth Boat
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 herself when her daughter was born. Given neither love nor attention, Jarka must look after herself and spends many long hours alone in her flat or wandering aimlessly around the […]
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 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 […]
Excercises for Ibn Pajko
In the last ten years, Olivera Nikolova created several notable accomplishments in fiction, among which Vežbi za Ibn Pajko – 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 […]
The Traveller
The Last Horse of Pompeii
Posledný kôň Pompejí – 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, […]
Auschwitz Café
Mimesis
Private Gallery
Madonna’s Jewels
V Madoninem nakitu Blašković ustvari štiri glasove, ki se prepletejo v pravi kvartet, in pojejo o agoniji na prelomu tisočletja, ko hočejo ikonografijo preteklosti uskladiti s sedanjo. Madonin nakit je postavljen v zaporniško ambulanto med Natovim bombardiranjem Srbije in je pravi postmoderni priročnik politične nekorektnosti. Včasih poglobljeni in premišljeni, včasih razbijaški, včasih duhoviti vsi štirje pripovedovalci, od katerih […]
Tamara
The Star of David
Hiša mrtvih vonjav
Nothing’s Lost
Saltykov, the hero of Alexander Kabakov’s novel Nothing’s Lost, is a mature man thinking back over his long life – from his childhood under Stalin spent in a small town and his youth as a trend-setter in Moscow during the Thaw till the present day in a capital where sweet freedom went hand in hand with […]
Leica format
A Myrtle-Coloured Rob
A Way to Karadag
Thursday
Ballerina, Ballerina
The novel Tereza (1989) spans over the period from the end of the 19th century to the 1920s, it takes place in Ljubljana that was gravely affected by an earthquake in 1895, in the Slovenian countryside and in Vienna. The author’s debut work was described as an attempt of a family or epochal novel. The story connects […]
The ornament
Ornament – The ornament: The story of a student, Matej Hóz, takes place in the 1950s in the days of persecution of Christians by the communist régime. Matej billets a priest hiding from the state police in his apartment. They form a strange friendship, which remains the central theme of the story even after the priest disappears, […]
Reason
Sloboda‘s prose writing has strong autobiographical features. The author, nearly always, describes his own experience and workings of his mind in his prose writing: he focuses on the search for the meaning of life and on the attitudes of an individual in an estranged society. Rozum – Reason brings out a story of an intellectual, engaged in […]
The Unwritten Novel
Nenapísaný roman – The Unwritten Novel is a prose work about a non-assertive intellectual, set in the 1970s. The protagonist, Adam Zachariáš, is a type of an anti-hero. The communist regime persecutes him, but not to that extent he would make it the main topic of his „notes“ for a novel. Zachariáš realizes that behind every ban […]
The End of the Game
The End of the Game – Koniec hry is a psychological novel with a suspense plot deals with the problem of crime and punishment, with both the individual and collective morals of the society in the last decade of socialism in the 1980s. A film director murders his wife in affect, but his mother saves him by pleading guilty and […]
The Lamp
Lampa – The Lamp is an ambitious project, combining several traditional types of novel: a road novel, an educational novel, a social novel. It brings forth a skeptical polemic with “great stories”: a Christian story of the “history of salvation”, a socialist story of emancipation of the working-class man, a story of “liberation” based on the belief in the […]
Mark the Horse Groom and the Pope of Hungary
The sparse plot of a historical novel Marek koniar a uhorský pápež – Mark the Horse Groom and the Pope of Hungary is set in 16th century, in the times of the Dózsa uprising. The author writes about the powerful men of this world who yearn for even more power and who do not hesitate to use any beguiling means […]
Dogs Marry
The novel Psy sa ženia – Dogs Marry offers an interesting and bold insight into our contemporary reality. A suspenseful story about the private life of a writer coming to a small town to do research for his next prose work deals with the unclear and insincere relationships within the society. It probes the borders of funny and serious, and […]
The Assistant
The story of Pomocnik – The Assistant takes place in a small township of Palánk in southern Slovakia, recovering after the trauma of WWII. The residents of Palánk do not dwell on the past, they fix their attention to the future. Life bursts out in this small town with all its might, tastes, colours and passion. The need to […]
The Camp of Fallen Women
Roman Taborišče padlih žensk v orwellovski maniri prikazuje kruto in groteskno podobo življenja ljudi za železno zaveso življenje bratislavskih prostitutk, ki jih komunistična oblast pošlje na prevzgojo v delovno taborišče Nováke, nekdanje judovsko koncentracijsko taborišče. Roman, ki je nastal na podlagi obsežnega dokumentarnega gradiva, je umeščen v Bratislavo leta 1949, dve leti po komunističnem prevratu in prevzemu […]
In the Name of the Father
The novella V mene otca – In the Name of the Father is a probe into the life of a man of retirement age and his complicated family relationships. He is a man who is irresponsible and selfish with sadistic inclinations, the father of two adult sons who once was a son himself and is now telling his story. […]
Wolf’s Nights
Unsusucessful music student Rafael Meden, an organist and a sexton in a parish without a priest, indulges in drinking. At the same time he is more and more aware of the fact that the Catholic Church as a form of faith and spirituality is disintegrating and decaying and that he is completely helpless fighting against […]
The Grain of Corn
After World War II, the Istrian woman Katina (main character of the novel Šavrinke) finds herself in prison in Pula. She is sentenced to one year of emprisonment, officially because of smuggling but the real reason lies in the fact that in spite of torturing she did not want to betray the people who secretly […]
Tereza
The novel Tereza (1989) spans over the period from the end of the 19th century to the 1920s, it takes place in Ljubljana that was gravely affected by an earthquake in 1895, in the Slovenian countryside and in Vienna. The author’s debut work was described as an attempt of a family or epochal novel. The story connects the […]
Heartspots
Zgodba pripoveduje o nepričakovanem ponovnem srečanju glavne osebe z zgodnjo, a zdaj nanovo oživljeno ljubeznijo, o odrešujoči spolnosti ter o novem urejevanju zadnjih let. Srčne pege so lahko berljiva pripoved o jesenskem cvetju in cvetenju, s poudarkom na jeziku in z voljo, da bi junak našel smisel in uresničenje dozorelega življenja.
Brought by the Fog
Katoliškega duhovnika Jona Urskega zaradi kršitve cerkvenega reda kazensko premestijo v Mokuš. Odmaknjen in zamočvirjen kraj je brez duhovnika, saj je prejšnji župnik umrl skrivnostne smeti. Cerkev je povsem zapuščena, prebivalci Mokuša, ki so izrazito vraževerni, pa so skrivnostno povezani z žensko, ki se jim prikazuje v različnih podobah. Gre za usodno žensko, lik iz […]
When Bats Dance with Angels
The main character of Čar’s debut novel Igra angelov in netopirjev – When Bats Dance with Angels is a priest, Father Faus whose more or less peaceful life is disrupted by a mysterious femme fatale Nasja. In the numbed inhabitants of a sleepy small town she arouses interest as well as reluctance. The priest together with other lost creatures quickly finds […]
The Last Temptation of Sergij
Sergijevo smešnjava is a transitional novel set in the period after Slovenia gained independence in 1991. Contrary to the expectations of the intellectual elite and ordinary citizens, the birth pangs of the emerging state were so intense and unpredictable that, instead of a quick path to an orderly society and the elimination of everything that […]
The First Second Coming
The First Second Coming: In Polynsk, there is – just as there ought to be – the town’s very own madman, Ivan Zakharovich Nikhilov. He decided that his neighbour, Pyotr Salabonov, was Christ re-born. Pyotr made a joke of it at first, argued, lost his temper – but he was just an ordinary mortal, a […]
Flood Zone
The novel Flood Zone tells of the inhabitants of old Siberian villages who find themselves in a zone where the Boguchanskaya hydroelectric power plant is due to be built. Its construction was completed at the beginning of this decade. Senchin depicts the way of life of these people: how they earn their living, their small solid houses […]
The Slynx
The action of The Slynx, which the writer embarked upon shortly after the Chernobyl disaster, takes place in an unspecified future, 20 years after the Big Bang in the town of Fyodor-Kuzmichsk, which had in the distant past been Moscow. The survivors living in forests and swamps feed on mice and radio-active dates: their way of […]
The Treasure of the Rebellion
The Treasure of the Rebellion. 1778. The Land of Urals is smoking with their mining plants. They are smelting ironstone for the entire Empire. But how can one ship it to the capital? Because of the no-road conditions the horses and carts are out of the question. For the Ural plants there is only one road […]
The Kukotsky Enigma
The central character in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s celebrated novel The Kukotsky Enigma is a gynecologist contending with Stalin’s prohibition of abortions in 1936. But, in the tradition of Russia’s great family novels, the story encompasses the history of two families and unfolds in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and on the ruins of ancient civilizations on the Black Sea. Their […]
2017
The novel 2017 is set in the Ural Mountains, named Riphean Mountains in the book. Like a Christmas stocking stuffed with presents, the old crumbling mountain range is full of subterranean treasures – ores and gems. It is home to a regional subculture of the so-called “khitniks” – unlicensed precious stone miners, to whom their […]
Crnoturci
The novel Crnoturci of Husein Bašić deals with one of the ancient themes of world literature – the exodus. But the exodus that is the subject of Bašić’s interest is not burdened with a mythological aura of a biblical prototext but is focused on a particular episode of the Montenegrin history of the end of the 19th century […]
The Last Villagers
The novel Azbuka za neposlušne – Alphabet of the Insubordinate is characterised by an unusual organization and structure: the action takes place in an alphabetical order and following the deeper layers of the transformation of letters, starting from their source in the similarity between the object and the notion to which they refer and leading […]
Alphabet of the Insubordinate
The novel Azbuka za neposlušne – Alphabet of the Insubordinate is characterised by an unusual organization and structure: the action takes place in an alphabetical order and following the deeper layers of the transformation of letters, starting from their source in the similarity between the object and the notion to which they refer and leading […]
Wild League
Diva liga – Wild League, the novel of the prominent Macedonian writer Vlada Uroshevic deals with a current and an intriguing theme – theft of an archeological cultural treasure. The conveying of a subject like these upon the Macedonian ambient is completely justified due to its constant presence in the media in the last decade. […]
Conversation with Spinoza
Goce Smilevski is a young author, born in 1975, a representative of the youngest generation of Macedonian novelists. His novel Razgovor so Spinoza – Conversation with Spinoza belongs to the current in the Macedonian and world novel which finds its motivation in the sphere of ideas. The circular path, which the author then follows, leads to life itself, […]
The Peeper
For the Sirkačot – The Peeper of Prokopiev, nostalgia is inseparable from the erotic. Even as a schoolboy, joining in singing the National Anthem for Tito, the protagonist is more deeply affected by personal experience than public history. The middle-aged protagonist who longs for Jana had already longed for and lost his mother Maria decades earlier. And […]
Sunday
The novel Nedela – Sunday by Ermis Lafazanovski met a great response by the critics as well as reades. With its subtle and cultured recognizable parody, allusion, and above all, with its often witty narration as well as with its wonderful so called „oral essays” and the perfect simplicity, with which it skillfully caught anxiety of the […]
Roulette of Seven Numbers
Slavko Janevski is a writer belonging the very top of Macedonian contemporary literature. He is the author of poetry books, travelogues, children’s literature, movie scripts, but most of all Janevski is a unique figure due to his novels, especially from the Kukulino cycle. Kukulino is a mythical and a secret place, it is a multiple […]
The Well
V središču pripovedi romana Vodnjak je vodnjak kot prispodoba globokega in skritega, metafora kopanja v lastno dušo, da bi našli majhen izvir, v katerem lahko človek – kot v zrcalu – uzre lastne zmage (in zmage drugih), pa tudi stvari, ki jih morda ne bi hotel videti – poraze, moralne zdrse, napake v odnosu do sebe in […]
The Book of the Sky
Krste Chachanski is one of the most talented and most authentic Macedonian prose writers of his generation – the generation which started out from the postmodernism of Jorge Luis Borges. His choice to depict a theme from the historical past of the Macedonian people in his novel Kniga na neboto – The Book of the Sky was thereby a kind […]