The first collection of stories by the young Slovenian writer Andrej Blatnik to appear in English, Skinswaps represents a new ethos in the literature of post-communist Eastern Europe. Unconcerned with the ponderous legacy of communism and the explicit struggle between the personal and the political, Blatnik's stories utilize a range of narrative perspectives from the dramatically oblique, the formally experimental, and the comically absurd to the poignantly realistic to cast unexpected light on universal conflicts of identity and fate. Blatnik's detached and impersonal yet eerily compelling...
The first collection of stories by the young Slovenian writer Andrej Blatnik to appear in English, Skinswaps represents a new ethos in the literature ...
This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching miniatures addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of on a daily basis--no closer to understanding the motives of our families, friends, lovers, or coworkers than we are those of a complete stranger... or, indeed, our...
This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching miniatures addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people ...
