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Published by Seagull Books London Ltd, Greenford, 2025
ISBN 10: 1803094141 ISBN 13: 9781803094144
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. An introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky. Simon Blef, who comes from "a small, stifling country without a sea" in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Netherlands. There he has found a wife and hopes he may yet find work. He is making preparations: he carries around a notebook and jots down his thoughts. One day he would like to write a novel, but in the meantime, he records, embellishes, invents, and combines what he sees with what he dreams: the happy, hard-working Dutch, with their seventy-year-old hippiesthe "superannuated generation of rockers" and their new "sexless generation," as well as the tourists and immigrants from beyond the seven seas. Set in a single day, Making Skeletons Dance is full of impressionistic musings, in equal measure mordant and humorous. Simon has left his small unhappy country to get away from the pastbut how is it that the past is so devilishly resourceful, liable to turn up in any Amsterdam pub? As the afternoon wears on, the drama of his life unfolds in fascinating detail, be it comedy or tragedy, or both. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Seagull Books 5/9/2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 1803094141 ISBN 13: 9781803094144
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ISBN 10: 1803094141 ISBN 13: 9781803094144
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Hardback. Condition: New. An introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky. Simon Blef, who comes from "a small, stifling country without a sea" in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Netherlands. There he has found a wife and hopes he may yet find work. He is making preparations: he carries around a notebook and jots down his thoughts. One day he would like to write a novel, but in the meantime, he records, embellishes, invents, and combines what he sees with what he dreams: the happy, hard-working Dutch, with their seventy-year-old hippies-the "superannuated generation of rockers"- and their new "sexless generation," as well as the tourists and immigrants from beyond the seven seas. Set in a single day, Making Skeletons Dance is full of impressionistic musings, in equal measure mordant and humorous. Simon has left his small unhappy country to get away from the past-but how is it that the past is so devilishly resourceful, liable to turn up in any Amsterdam pub? As the afternoon wears on, the drama of his life unfolds in fascinating detail, be it comedy or tragedy, or both.
Language: English
Published by Seagull Books London Ltd, 2025
ISBN 10: 1803094141 ISBN 13: 9781803094144
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nasse; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Gebrochener Buchrucken. V najnovsom Macsovszkeho romane sa stretavame s postavou Famula, ktory podnika cestu k zdrojom vlastnej frustracie. Autor pozyva citatelov do sveta dystopickych vizii, ktorych kulisu tvori pestra exoticka, multikulturna konfrontacia dvoch svetov - sveta zapadneho a sveta vychodneho.
Softcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Buducnost, ktora uz pominula. Podprahove kolaze. Pritomnost, ktora este nenastala. Sprisahanie instalaterov. Zmluva s pekelnikom. Explozie falosneho pokroku. Miznuca zena. Neskrotni dochodcovia. Hlavna postava, ktora je vedlajsia. Masineria riadeneho chaosu. Zhananie pisacieho stroja. Teror cinorodych prestavieb. Galeria periferneho umenia. Supermarketovi mystici. Kiwi pod prazenicou. Niekolko neoverenych receptov, ako sa branit inovacnemu osialu. Tajomstva odlahlych pusti. Neviditelne, no ucinne zbrane. Multifunkcne masinky roznych velkosti. Hmyz, ktory sa usidlil v kupelni. Vozidla vo verejnom vlastnictve. Biozelenina na strechach domov. Basnik, ktory sa bal komety. Hotel v Tokiu. Haraburdy, aparaty, signaly. Sprava, ktora sa dostane do nepovolanych ruk.
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. Spuren von Feuchtigkeit / Nasse; Gebrochener Buchrucken. "Ak mam cosi povedat aj o Sumracnej reci: niekomu sa mozno bude zdat, ze sa napadne podoba na Cselenyiho texty. To je mozne. Skutocne som si niektore postupy pozical od majstra Cselenyiho. Avsak prv ako som tak urobil, poziadal som ho o povolenie. Keby mi ho nebol udelil, bol by som poziadal tych, ktorymi sa inspiroval on. Alebo by som sa odvolal na Apollinairov kubizmus, Tzarovo vertikalne strihanie novin, Burroughsove kolaze, na Olsona, na Eliota, Antina. To je jedno. Myslim, ze dvaja konstrukteri mozu pouzivat ten isty postup: pozrite sa na surrealistov - rozlisili by ste Bretona od Pereta alebo Zaryho od Reisela?Preberame postupy od svojich predchodcov a zaroven k nim cosi pridavame. A ak navyse verime v akusi linearnu postupnost, mozeme si mysliet, ze tradiciu, do ktorej sme sa zaradili, aj obohacujeme, inovujeme, posuvame po kolajniciach iluzornej linearity."(Peter Macsovszky)graficka koncepcia: Jana Slezakova, Peter Sulej.
Softcover. Condition: Fair. Verschmutzung / Wasserschaden; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Roman sa snazi zachytit cinorodost ludskeho tvora na zemeguli. Je to katalog vyznamnych osobnosti. Slovenskych i zahranicnych. Karneval obsesii a skutkov. Prehliadka udalosti. Sukromnych, historickych i tajuplnych. Sprava o tom, ze pohyby v privatnej sfere niekedy zatienia velke spolocenske dianie. Sprava o komickych i zlovestnych podobach stihomamu. No v prvom rade je to skromna pocta vzdelancom, ktori v zabudnutych mestach strednej Europy vytrvalo udrzuju ohen kulturnych aktivit.
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ISBN 10: 1803094141 ISBN 13: 9781803094144
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Brand New. 385 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.
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Softcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Poviedky. Kratke, nevelmi pribehove, vlastne skor reflexivne prozy. Niekolko naivnych i menej naivnych rozpravacov sa vyznava zo svojej tajomnej lasky k Cine. Nahliadaju pritom do dejin a vytahuju z nich prekvapive i menej prekvapive fakty, suvislosti, interpretacie.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: As New. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen. Nova poviedkova kniha prozaika, basnika a laureata Anasoft litera Petra Macsovszkeho Ocean trpezlivosti zaspieval je vynikajucou ukazkou autorovej erudicie a majstrovstva.Kto riadi dianie na zemeguli? Rada deviatich neviditelnych velmajstrov? Zlomyselni geniovia ci ludomilni babraci? Je spravne za kazdu cenu opravovat vysinuty svet? Komu patri hlas z krikov? Co sa prihodilo pred tridsiatimi siestimi rokmi pocas nuklearnej jari Matejovi Birkovi? Je nebezpecne zabludit v Karaci? Existuje niekde spolok obdivovatelov penisu? Co je najvacsou vasnou pani Emilie? Kto je Ludovit Guba a ake su nazory doktora Mecanskeho? Co bude na obed? Naozaj plati, ze kazdodenne konspiracie sa inspiruju konspiracnymi bludmi a bludy zasa vedecko-fantastickymi romanmi a filmami? Kto su cuncurbaji? Ako to, ze opatrenia a obmedzenia uplynulych dvoch rokov napadne pripominaju zlovestne fantazie, ktore autorovi zisli na um v roku 2010 pri pisani poviedky uzatvarajucej tuto zbierku?Netreba za kazdu cenu hladat odpovede. Staci sa ponorit do poviedkovych suvislosti, ktore citatela obklopia v momente, ked vstupi do podstrceneho zrkadla.
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Vergilbt / ausgeblichen. Roman Tantalopolis mozno v primarnej rovine chapat ako prienik do kazdodenneho zivota jedneho juhoamerickeho mesta. Ako vsak takmer v kazdom literarnom diele, aj tu su realie modifikovane,stylizovane, a sluzia len ako ramec ovela sirsej, univerzalnejsej metafory. Kulisa ,tretieho sveta" sluzi ako zosilnujuci prvok pri vykreslovani roznych podob zlyhavajucej civilizacie ci uz v rovine socialnej, intimnej, technologickej a politickej. Kontrast medzi tropickym prostredim prekypujucim farbami, tvarmi, chutami a vonami a medzi upornym bojom jednotlivcom proti prirodnym zivlom i byrokratickej masinerii, vytvara pestru a dramaticku zmes.
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