The Tree with No Name
Will be published approx. on 23. October 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-1-62897-054-8 (ISBN)
Description
A diary recounting four decades' worth of sexual exploits, the memoir of a mental institution attendant, and a familiar-looking bicycle dredged out of a river--the discovery of these artifacts sends an archivist on an obsessive quest to discover their owners' identities and fates. Shifting between Slovenia's postcommunist present and its wartime occupation by the Axis, "The Tree with No Name" might well be Drago Jancar's masterpiece: a compelling and universally significant story of an individual confronting the constraints on truth set by his--and every--culture.
Reviews / Votes
Jancar, one of Slovenia's foremost writers, skillfully infuses even the most mundane events with foreboding, dread and paranoia. Publishers Weekly As a novelist and a master of short prose, Jancar reveals deep human social and psychological traumas and--like his Central European literary and spiritual relatives, Franz Kafka, G nter Grass, or Milan Kundera--finds no escape from the unclear, primal, and evil human lot... A unique, ethically sensitive, and politically independent thinker. Slavic and East European Journal A clutch of brusque, seriocomic and sometimes forbidding tales about lust, loss and betrayal... Taut storytelling... Kirkus Review The practice of reading [The Tree with No Name] becomes the practice of sifting: an arduous though occasionally rewarding experience. Times Literary Supplement A timely work, it is likely to become more and more relevant over the coming years. Quarterly ConversationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62897-054-8 (9781628970548)
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Person
Jancar, today the leading writer of contemporary Slovenian prose, was born in Maribor, Slovenia. A former president of the Slovenian PEN Center and a winner of the Preseren Foundation Award, he is currently an editor of the New Review. Michael Biggins's translations of works by Slovene authors such as Drago Jancar, Tomaz Salamun, Vladimir Bartol and Lojze Kovacic have been published by Harcourt, Archipelago and Dalkey Archive, among others. In 2015 he was awarded the Lavrin Diploma of the Society of Slovene Literary Translators for distinguished contributions to the advancement of Slovene literature in English. He lives in Seattle.