Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himself Fritz--faithfully records the bizarre occurrences of his daily life: his absurd conversations with his mother who is abducted by slave traders, his visits to his friend who works in the hospital's autopsy room, and his sister's tumultuous marriage to the butcher's son, to name a few. Widely respected in Serbia, the term "Basarian" has been coined to refer to his unique writing style, reminiscent of the best of Samuel Beckett for its...
Ordered by two mysterious men to write a statement of about 100 pages, the narrator of Chinese Letter--who's not sure of his name, but calls himsel...
In this contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker s Dracula, Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction, combining pieces of Estonian political history in particular the figure of Lydia Koidula (1843-1886), widely regarded as the first Estonian woman to express an Estonian longing for independence with portraits of life in contemporary Estonia, all set against a backdrop of vampirism and the Gothic novel."
In this contemporary retelling of Bram Stoker s Dracula, Estonian writer Mati Unt offers a playful yet unsettling mixture of fact and fiction, combini...
Here is a book about a man, supposedly a writer, who tries to write a novel, because he promised his readers he would. But he doesn t have anything to say. He keeps erasing what he writes, and rewriting it, without having the slightest idea where he s going with it. Soon enough he realizes that looking out of the window, sitting in front of his typewriter, describing anything and everything, is not enough to write a novel. His three friends, Edmond, Edgar, and Edouard, will aid him in his task . . . Pigeon Post will be the second book Dalkey Archive has published by the Romanian writer...
Here is a book about a man, supposedly a writer, who tries to write a novel, because he promised his readers he would. But he doesn t have anything to...
