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• Product Details

  Product #

  2057196B

  Author(s)

  Vian, Boris

  City

  Zagreb 

  Country

  Croatia 

  Language

  Croatian 

  ISBN

  9789533340012 

  Date of Publication

  2011 

  Publisher

  Meandarmedia  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  167 

  Subject

  Literature

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Vian, Boris

  Publisher

  Meandarmedia  

• Description

  Red Grass Vian's originality in this work is manifested in writing the existential crisis into the framework of fantasy. Instead of a huge ladder, which in myths gives man access to the divine world, Wolf's machine is a miraculous instrument of returning to oneself. Presenting intimate memories, dramas of personal crises, parodied psychoanalysis, travel through time and into the beyond, the fantastic world of Kvadrat, the oneiric or anamnestic inner world - it is precisely on this mixture of inspiration that all the novelty of "Red Grass" is based, a novel that combines satire and psychology, offering as an anxious but also humorous self-examination. At the same time, he ironically winks at the classics, from La Fontaine to Hugo, via de Musset, and the entire culture of fantastic writing resonates especially strongly with the novel. Vian thus compares forces with Lewis Carroll, and also recalls two novels by H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. (From the foreword by Gilbert Pestureau)