
Hidden Camera
Zoran Zivkovic(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Published on 15. December 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
217 pages
978-1-56478-412-4 (ISBN)
Description
From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there's only one other person in the audience, a very attractive woman whom he's seated next to. Then things get a bit more mysterious. The movie he's been invited to see includes a scene showing him sitting in a park. Believing that he's an unwitting participant in a complicated hidden camera show, he goes along with the variety of setups he's faced with, which continue to get more involved and absurd. As the show develops, he becomes more and more paranoid and distrustful, but he keeps up the ruse to its thrilling conclusion.
Reviews / Votes
"For all his control of mood and language, Zivkovic is a writer who prefers the playful to the profound, the scattering of seeds to the harvest." - Gerald Turner, New York Times "Zivkovic does a superb job of communicating the befuddlement, confusion, and awe of individual characters as they wrestle with mysteries that exceed the understanding that their time, place and intellectual capacity permits." - Stefan Dziemianowicz, Publishers Weekly"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-412-4 (9781564784124)
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Persons
Zoran Zivkovic is the author of "The Book/The Writer, The Devil in Brisbane, The Fourth Circle, Hidden Camera," and "Seven Touches of Music," He is the recipient of the World Fantasy and the Milos Crnjanski Awards, was a two-time finalist for the International Dublin Literary and the Yugoslavian NIN Awards, and has been named a Guest of Honor for EuroCon 2007. His work has been published in 17 countries, broadcast on BBC radio, produced for television, and optioned for film. Copple-Tosic is a lecturer of the English language in the English department at the University of Belgrade.