One night the Holy Ghost reveals the secret of the world to Anan: man descends not from the apes but from nothingness. Empowered by this admission the boy – to the dismay of his parents – starts his life over and is reborn into the immaterial world. At odds with materialists, Anan starts to write a wacky novel in which he opposes the soul and reason, demolishing Darwin and Freud and ending up in a lunatic asylum.
TITLE : The Cracked Mirror
AUTHOR : Svetislav Basara
COUNTRY : Serbia
AUTHOR : Svetislav Basara
COUNTRY : Serbia
NUMBER OF PAGES : 128
SOLD TO: 10/18 (France) for a pocket book edition
SOLD TO: 10/18 (France) for a pocket book edition
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Svetislav Basara was born in western Serbia in 1953. One of the most brilliant — and most controversial — writers of his generation, his iconoclastic production includes books that are small masterpieces of the absurd. He gives a rough time both to the rules of the novel and to the order of the world, creating a farce that is both cynical and scathing. He excels as well in the pastiche, shaking up readers in romans à clef, giving a new slant to the diplomatic novel for which Ivo Andric is renowned, with emphasis on versions marked by anarchy and burlesque. He has published a number of novels, short story collections and works of non-fiction. His books have been translated into English, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, and French. The French publisher Gaïa has published De bello civili, version Vitamine C(1996), Le pays maudit (1998), Histoires en disparition (2001), Phénomènes, Copie d’un manuscrit brûlé (2004). In 2005, Les Allusifs published Le miroir félé.
Svetislav Basara was born in western Serbia in 1953. One of the most brilliant — and most controversial — writers of his generation, his iconoclastic production includes books that are small masterpieces of the absurd. He gives a rough time both to the rules of the novel and to the order of the world, creating a farce that is both cynical and scathing. He excels as well in the pastiche, shaking up readers in romans à clef, giving a new slant to the diplomatic novel for which Ivo Andric is renowned, with emphasis on versions marked by anarchy and burlesque. He has published a number of novels, short story collections and works of non-fiction. His books have been translated into English, Greek, Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, and French. The French publisher Gaïa has published De bello civili, version Vitamine C(1996), Le pays maudit (1998), Histoires en disparition (2001), Phénomènes, Copie d’un manuscrit brûlé (2004). In 2005, Les Allusifs published Le miroir félé.