
Fleeting Snow
Pavel Vilikovsky(Author)
Istros Books (Publisher)
Published on 28. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-908236-37-1 (ISBN)
Description
Pavel Vilikovsky's novella Fleeting Snow (Letmy sneh, 2014), depicts the gradual loss of memory of the narrator's wife. The narrator reminisces about his past life with his wife and muses on issues ranging from human nature and the soul, to names and the phonetics of Slovak and indigenous American Indian languages, in an informal, humorous style whose lightness of touch belies the seriousness of his themes.
The book's title refers to its recurring central motif, an avalanche whose inexorable descent cannot be stopped once the critical mass of snow has begun to roll, echoing the unstoppable process of memory loss. Five themes or storylines, intertwined in passages of varying lengths, are labelled with letters of the alphabet and numbers in a playful allusion to scholarly works and musical compositions.
The book's title refers to its recurring central motif, an avalanche whose inexorable descent cannot be stopped once the critical mass of snow has begun to roll, echoing the unstoppable process of memory loss. Five themes or storylines, intertwined in passages of varying lengths, are labelled with letters of the alphabet and numbers in a playful allusion to scholarly works and musical compositions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
162 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908236-37-1 (9781908236371)
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Pavel Vilikovsky (b. 1941) is one of Slovakia's most distinctive narrative voices and probably the greatest living Slovak writer. Working as literary editor and translator from the English for many years, he published only two books under communism, preferring self- --imposed silence to self---censorship. He made up for this silence with some prolific output since 1989, publishing over a dozen books of essays, collections of short stories and novels. Vilikovsky's self---consciously literary, self---referential and witty prose frequently pillories Slovak national myths.