Godina izdanja: 2010
ISBN: 8617168323
Autor: Domaći
Jezik: Engleski

Zoran Živković - Impossible Stories
Zavod za udžbenike, Beograd, 2010
708 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Alice Copple-Tošić (Translator)

Impossible Stories I is a collection of several of the author`s finest works, including Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library (winner of the World Fantasy Award), and Steps through the Mist. The perfect introduction to the incredible world of Zoran Zivković.

Impossible Stories might be approached as if one were inspecting a handsome piece of furniture, a cabinet in which each of any number of regularly sized and shaped drawers is built precisely to contain and to somehow exemplify its own metaphysical freight or uncanny puzzle, and it is in the rhythm and variety of the whole, too, that the nature of Zivković`s craft can be apprehended and enjoyed.
--Tony White, Wasafiri ...even though they own and use computers, Zivković`s characters seem decidedly nineteenth century. They are as intelligent and as neurotic as Poe`s personae, and admirers of that master of the outre-or of Borges, Gogol, Capek, and Lem-will be enthralled by them.
--Ray Olson, Booklist ...well worth reading for the ingenuity of Zivković`s stories. He is extraordinarily clever and has a particular talent for devising awkward moral dilemmas for his characters. His writing is also ... quite unlike that of anyone else.
--Cheryl Morgan, Emerald City

The Gifts; Impossible Encounters; Seven Touches of Music; The Library; Steps Through the Mist; Four Stories Till the End; Twelve Collections; The Bridge; Miss Tamara, the Reader; Amarcord; Compartments.
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Zoran Živković was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1948. In 1973 he graduated from the Department of General Literature with the theory of literature, Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade; he received his master`s degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1982 from the same school. He lives in Belgrade, Serbia, with his wife Mia, who is French, and their twin sons Uroš and Andreja. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology. He`s received plenty of awards, one of them being the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella (The Library, 2003).


Fiction, Short Stories, 8617168323