Imitation
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-86914-374-9 (ISBN)
Description
Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zuma's Big Man building project in Nkandla; awed, all over again, by Milan Kundera's Immortality; and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as 'the highest basilica in all of Christendom', Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire.
Reviews / Votes
Imitation is a strikingly original work of great subtlety, complexity, imagination, originality, and a clear homage to Milan Kundera's Immortality. I have never read a novel quite like this."" - Jason M. Wirth, Commiserating With Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking""Imitation is challenging, ambitious and intelligent. It is a fascinating and adventurous parallel to Immortality that is intriguingly and playfully managed; an impressive and carefully considered novel that takes some of Milan Kundera's most enigmatic thoughts and modernises them.' - Andrew Brown, 2006 recipient of the Sunday Times Fiction Prize for Coldsleep Lullaby
""With stylistic virtuosity, Praeg successfully enacts the tempestuous relationship between philosophy and fiction while elegantly and eloquently exploring the relationship between coloniser and colonised subjects. It is a brilliant, sparkling novel that heralds a very thoughtful, new voice on the South African literary scene."" - Sam Naidu, Associate Professor of Literary Theory, World Literatures, and English Literature, Rhodes University
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Scottsville, Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
372 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86914-374-9 (9781869143749)
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Person
Leonhard Praeg is head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria. He has published a number of books on African philosophy, violence in the post-colony and African humanism. Imitation is his first novel.