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On the Threshold: Short Stories
Stories that entwine the mundane with the mystical, written by a cult favorite Slovakian writer. An unhappily...
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Stories that entwine the mundane with the mystical, written by a cult favorite Slovakian writer. An unhappily married woman is impregnated by her elderly neighbor who lives in a building across the street and with whom she has never had any physical contact. Just as his attention creates life within her, his own life waxes and wanes with her gaze and attention. A man finds himself trapped in a pub on a sweltering afternoon after refusing to buy a beer with his cigarettes. Guarded by a vigilante bartender and his beer-obsessed patrons, his every attempt at escape is foiled until their life-giving elixir, the beer, runs out. This collection introduces English-language readers to the work of Dusan Mitana, a cult figure in contemporary Central European literature. In Mitana's stories, appearing in English for the first time, the rational and the irrational are indistinguishable. His tales infect a banal, quotidian realism with mystical and supernatural distortions. Tinged with Hitchcockian paranoia and full of unexpected turns, the seventeen stories collected here offer a glimpse into Mitana's trademark absurdist style.
Author: Dusan Mitana
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 277
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781803094120
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/07/2024
About the Author
Dusan Mitana (1946-2019) worked for two of the most prominent literary journals in Czechoslovakia, Mladá tvorba and Romboid. His works, which include more than a dozen books of prose, two collections of poetry, and several scripts, span fifty years and have been translated and published in more than twenty countries. Magdalena Mullek is a literary translator and scholar.
Author: Dusan Mitana
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 11/05/2024
Pages: 277
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781803094120
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/07/2024
About the Author
Dusan Mitana (1946-2019) worked for two of the most prominent literary journals in Czechoslovakia, Mladá tvorba and Romboid. His works, which include more than a dozen books of prose, two collections of poetry, and several scripts, span fifty years and have been translated and published in more than twenty countries. Magdalena Mullek is a literary translator and scholar.
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