Between Exile and Asylum
Subtitle: An Eastern Epistolary
By: Predrag Matvejević
Publisher: V.b.z.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Zagreb
Language: hrv; eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789533045580
Description: An amalgam of utopia and despair is what characterizes An Eastern Epistolary, the work that the bookkeepers all too often mistakenly place on the shelf of political literature. This is in fact a novel, in the sense Shklovsky and the Russian formalists saw it, bringing together fiction and a document? A whole that offers a surprising image of newer history, a kind of epopee of paradox Jean-Baptiste Michel: Le Nouvel Observateur An Eastern Epistolary fits into the tradition of epistolary novel? Some day this breviary will be read as a modern replica of Don Quixote. Jean-Michel Palmier: Le Monde Diplomatique This book is at the same time a humane and literarytestimony, in itself it conciliates the daring defense of freedom and deep cosmopolitan emotion, which knows nothing of national separation. Claudio Magris: Corriere della Sera The question of what literary genre this work belongs to is completely irrelevant.
Notes: Literature; Croatia