My kingdom is dying : Storytelling at the end of the world
Flisar, Evald2025
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When the main character, a successful writer, experiences writer's block, he withdraws from his malign fate to Berghof, a Swiss clinic. A number of famous names in world literature are already receiving treatment there, from Martin Amis, Graham Greene and Saul Bellow to J. M. Coetzee. But is Berghof really what it purports to be? And what role does the ever-silent figure of Scheherazade play in the novel? 'My Kingdom is Dying' is not just a hybrid of the genres of confession - detective story, memoir and fictional biography - but also a unique combination of fiction and metafiction, literature and meta-literary reflection. Readers follow a story in which unusual events unobtrusively mingle with meaningful reflection and deep insights.
Main title:
My kingdom is dying : Storytelling at the end of the world / Evald Flisar ; translated from the Slovene by David Limon
Author:
Flisar, Evald, authorLimon, David, translator
Imprint:
London : Istros Books, 2025.
Collation:
372 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Slovene.
ISBN:
9781912545537 (pbk)
Dewey class:
891.8436891.843F
Language:
EnglishSlovenian
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BRN:
3564323
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