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The
2005 Award
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The
Book by Zoran Živkovic
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Nominated by:
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly," of human manias and absurdities, here, in a similar kind of double-talk, the books themselves "speak," those monuments to our intelligence, ambitions and self-importance, and they primarily "speak" by making an analogy between man's fate and that of books - to man's detriment, of course. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Zoran Živkovic was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, in 1948. He received his doctorate from the University of Belgrade in 1982. He is the author of the following works of fiction: The Fourth Circle, Time Gifts, The Writer, The Book, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library , Steps through the Mist , and Candid Camera. He lives in Belgrade. |
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