The Book
Published on 20. August 2018
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-4-908793-07-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly," of human manias and absurdities, here, in a similar kind of double-talk, the books themselves "speak," those monuments to our intelligence, ambitions and self-importance, and they primarily "speak" by making an analogy between man's fate and that of books-to man's detriment, of course.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
314 gr
ISBN-13
978-4-908793-07-3 (9784908793073)
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Zoran ?ivkovi¿ was born in Belgrade, Serbia, on October 5, 1948. Until his recent retirement, he was a full professor at the Faculty of Philology, the University of Belgrade, teaching creative writing. He is one of the most translated contemporary Serbian writers: by the end of 2017 there were 93 foreign editions of his books of fiction, published in 23 countries, in 20 languages.
?ivkovi¿ has won several literary awards for his fiction, beginning with the Milo? Crnjanski award in 1994 for his novel The Fourth Circle. In 2003, ?ivkovi¿'s mosaic novel The Library won a World Fantasy Award for Best Novella; in 2007 his novel The Bridge won the Isidora Sekuli¿ award; and in 2007 he received the Stefan Mitrov Ljubi?a award for lifetime achievement in literature. In 2014 and 2015 he received three awards for his contribution to the literature of fantastika: Art-Anima, Stanislav Lem and The Golden Dragon.
Zoran ?ivkovi¿ has been recognized with his selection as European Grand Master for 2017 by the European Science Fiction Society at the 39th Eurocon in Dortmund, Germany.