Mitana Dusan
Mitana Dusan - On The Threshold Short Stories - Hardcover
Mitana Dusan - On The Threshold Short Stories - Hardcover
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Description: Stories that entwine the mundane with the mystical written by a cult favorite Slovakian writer. An unhappily married woman is impregnated by her elderly neighbor who lives in a building across the street and with whom she has never had any physical contact. Just as his attention creates life within her his own life waxes and wanes with her gaze and attention. A man finds himself trapped in a pub on a sweltering afternoon after refusing to buy a beer with his cigarettes. Guarded by a vigilante bartender and his beer - obsessed patrons his every attempt at escape is foiled until their life - giving elixir the beer runs out. This collection introduces English - language readers to the work of Du an Mitana a cult figure in contemporary Central European literature. In Mitana's stories appearing in English for the first time the rational and the irrational are indistinguishable. His tales infect a banal quotidian realism with mystical and supernatural distortions. Tinged with Hitchcockian paranoia and full of unexpected turns the seventeen stories collected here offer a glimpse into Mitana's trademark absurdist style.
Title: On The Threshold Short Stories
Author(s): Mitana Dusan
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803094120
Pages: 277 Pages
Publication Date: 12/23/2024
Series: The Slovak List
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
Description: Stories that entwine the mundane with the mystical written by a cult favorite Slovakian writer. An unhappily married woman is impregnated by her elderly neighbor who lives in a building across the street and with whom she has never had any physical contact. Just as his attention creates life within her his own life waxes and wanes with her gaze and attention. A man finds himself trapped in a pub on a sweltering afternoon after refusing to buy a beer with his cigarettes. Guarded by a vigilante bartender and his beer - obsessed patrons his every attempt at escape is foiled until their life - giving elixir the beer runs out. This collection introduces English - language readers to the work of Du an Mitana a cult figure in contemporary Central European literature. In Mitana's stories appearing in English for the first time the rational and the irrational are indistinguishable. His tales infect a banal quotidian realism with mystical and supernatural distortions. Tinged with Hitchcockian paranoia and full of unexpected turns the seventeen stories collected here offer a glimpse into Mitana's trademark absurdist style.
Title: On The Threshold Short Stories
Author(s): Mitana Dusan
Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
Barcode: 9781803094120
Pages: 277 Pages
Publication Date: 12/23/2024
Series: The Slovak List
Category: Literature: History & Criticism
