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Natural Novel
"Natural Novel is simultaneously erudite and funny a lucky combination that rarely occurs in Bulgarian books." Kapital
Book Details
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: Mar 1st, 2005
- Pages: 136
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.14in - 5.04in - 0.45in - 0.39lb
- EAN: 9781564783769
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Gospodinov, Georgi: - Gospodinov was born in Bulgaria in 1968. He is the editor-in-chief of a weekly literary magazine published in Bulgaria and a professor at the New Bulgarian University. He lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Praise for this book
Natural Novel is really an unidentified literary object and is almost impossible to retell. It is at the same time funny and erudite, arrogant and refined, yet brilliant in every respect and innovative in form.
Like Fernando Pessoa, Gospodinov has disappeared within his multiple selves (author, narrator, editor, gardener) and has become a detached observer of his own life. The narrative is rich in mini-stories . . . and the composition is multifaceted, like a fly's eye . . . All this informs the postmodern quality of Gospodinov's fiction.
The book is laugh-out-loud-funny but also touching; occasionally, it approaches the sublime. When so many postmodern novels are content to play their structural and thematic tricks, Natural Novel is an honest and human tale about loss and the awkward abyss on the other side of divorce.
The superb style and flowingly written narrative along with the clever switching between different forms of discourse and genres turn Gospodinov into a harbinger of a new, fruitful literary form.
Natural Nove