Ten years after the release of the excellent debut by Tomaž Kosmač, the first-person narrator Kosmo in the collection of short stories Punk is Dead has already become a true cosmopolitan. Short, heated anecdotal records have expanded, along with the narrative space,…
Her naked body and other strange stories consists of ten short stories in the tradition of fantasy literature with obvious Kafkaesque and Borgesian elements. The stories take place somewhere between reality and imagination and, despite the multiple influences, are ultimately very…
The short-story collection Stories from the Past includes sixteen stories and a novella. For a short period of time the book managed to attract the attention of modern Bulgarian critics and audiences. The literary critic Angel G. Angelov says that in these…
Grynberg is the most important chronicler of Jewish life in Poland after the Holocaust. His work has echoed through Polish society and moved many people to reach out to him to tell their personal stories of Jews and gentiles still…
Silsie is the story of a farewell. It is the story of a passage: between two worlds, two times, two civilizations, the story of a bet: that it is possible for Silsie to end the curse, and to save himself.…
A failed inventor brings rabbits to an island so that they will completely destroy all existence of these nests from birds whose name nobody knows. In the nightly penumbra, a species extinguished thousands of years ago now appears and walks…
In addition to his epochal great novels and excellent theatre pieces, György returns from time to time to what he calls the toughest genre, the short story. Spiró’s stories are dense texts whose perfection stems from their pithiness and structural…
I Could Ride All Day in My Cool Blue Train is a punchy and vividly imagined collection of discrete short stories which loop through common themes of anxiety and dislocation, mental instability and the slippery aspects of reality. Seven of the…
