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  • The Four Deaths and One Resurrection of Fyodor Mikhailovich
    Zoran Živković / Randall A. Major
    A bizarre encounter between doubles in a foggy park. The mysterious sudden death of one of the passengers in a train’s restaurant car. The hilarious yet tragic consultation of a psychiatrist with her highly unusual patient. A conversation in a Turkish bath between an invisible stranger and a penniless gambler. What do all these odd situations have in common? It is their famous,...
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    17,24 €

  • The White Room
    Zoran Živković / Randall A. Major
    Ivana has gone missing... With her disappearance there begins a fantastical adventure for Professor Zoran Živković, author and teacher of creative writing. Assisted by Senior Inspector Sanja Mrvaljević of the Belgrade police, military counterintelligence, the National Security Agency and ultimately Interpol, the search for Ivana grows into a comic nightmare of unforeseen propor...
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    19,45 €

  • Amarcord
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    Ten linked stories with resonant titles explore almost every conceivable aspect of human memory: the positive and the negative, the precious and the profane, the heavenly and the unbearably hellish. Zivkovic’s deceptively simple tales anatomize the essence of what makes human beings tick, our passions, our vanities and yearnings; the very memories which make us who we are. ...
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    15,52 €

  • Miss Tamara, the Reader
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    In this suite of eight stories, the three ages of woman-youth, midlife and senescence-engage in a complex and fruitful dance. A young Miss Tamara is lured by a series of postcards concealed in library books. A middle-aged Miss Tamara discovers that her new reading glasses turn the pages blank. An afternoon’s reading is disturbed by the realization that all books have turned fat...
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    15,65 €

  • The Bridge
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    What is the link between red hair, a red bowling ball and a red bikini? Between an overcoat with asymmetrical lapels, a scarf with two blotches and a pair of non-matching sneakers? In this brainteasing trio of stories, Zoran Živković explores the collision of realities: a man encounters an alternate self, a woman out on a shopping trip runs into her dead neighbor and a fourteen...
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    15,84 €

  • Four Stories Till the End
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    In what strange edifice of the imagination do you find a condemned cell, a hotel room and a hospital room? What kind of hotel offers a zinc mine, a meat-packing plant, a weapons factory and a cemetery of famous artists among its attractions? Why do four people commit suicide in the same bathroom and why does a literature professor cut up several of the greatest works of literat...
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    15,85 €

  • Steps through the Mist
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    Five women of various ages face, each in her own way, what seems to be the deterministic trap of Fate: a freshman in a girls’ boarding school with the strange ability to share other people’s dreams; a young woman in a straitjacket, desperately trying to locate a very particular future; a middle-aged skier refusing to be just a puppet on a string; an elderly fortune-teller with ...
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    15,71 €

  • Impossible Encounters
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    Six strangely related stories about six encounters that could or should have never happened. A post mortem encounter with a clerk who has a most bizarre offer; an elusive encounter with oneself, only decades older; a seemingly innocent encounter with a bookshop visitor who is desperately looking for an ordinary SF story; a memorable encounter with God in a train which, unfortun...
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    15,61 €

  • The Clay Writer
    Zoran Živković
    This concise book by the well-known Serbian writer and literary researcher summarizes his decade-long experience of teaching creative writing at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade.Always offering attendees four good reasons for not attending his course, or, in a broader perspective, discouraging them from professional writing altogether, the author reflects ultima...
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    28,82 €

  • The Library
    Zoran Živković / Alice Alice Copple-Tosic
    One of the most beloved “mosaic novels,” The Library presents a series of tales centered on our love of books—taken, at times, to extremes. A writer encounters a website where all his possible future books are on display; a lonely man faces an infinite flow of hardback books through his mailbox; an ordinary library turns by night into an archive of souls; the Devil sets about r...
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    15,71 €

  • Time Gifts
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    A mysterious visitor comes to see three desperate human beings: an astronomer in his prison cell the night before his execution for the ultimate heresy; a paleolinguist with a wasted life behind her who has been forgotten by everybody in her dusty basement office; an old watchmaker with a dark, painful spot in his past that has haunted him for decades. The visitor has a unique ...
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    15,81 €

  • Seven Touches of Music
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    Seven stories about moments of divine revelation through music, which leave no mark beyond the ephemeral instant of their perception: a teacher whose autistic ward inexplicably writes down one of the fundamental values of theoretical physics; a librarian whose dream of the Great Library is reenacted upon her computer screen; a man who buys a music box that when played provides ...
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    15,92 €

  • Compartments
    Zoran Živković
    On a strange train journey, in a series of six compartments, a traveller experiences unpredictable encounters, culminating in a meeting of epiphanic power. Through a narrative of dreamlike sharpness Compartments taps into the fears and absurdities, the beauties and mysteries of the unconscious mind, to achieve a consummation both moving and full of hope.Includes a new essay on ...
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    15,78 €

  • Twelve Collections
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    What lies behind the human urge to collect things? What is the true psychology of the kleptomaniac? These questions bear on all of us; within every person there lurks a fanatical philatelist or a monomaniacal lepidopterist, just waiting to burst forth. In his new story cycle, Twelve Collections, Zoran Zivkovic, the master of mind-bending surreal fantasy, applies his fertile min...
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    15,65 €

  • The Writer & The Ghostwriter
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    The Writer: A Very Short Novel, without Chapters, about Writing and DarknessWhere does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration, a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse, or a unique gift granted by demonic forces to penetrate the darkness and see beyond it? Two fundamental principles of the most noble of all arts are in the permanent col...
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    19,73 €

  • The Book
    Zoran Živković / Tamar Yellin
    The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type or "para-genre" of satirical prose embodied in the exemplary In Praise of Folly by the famous humanist from Rotterdam. Instead of the "Folly," of human manias and a...
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    19,53 €

  • Escher’s Loops
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    Once again Zivkovic demonstrates the sheer power of storytelling in this complex cycle of interlocking narratives. Like one of Escher’s drawings, the narrative threads lead one through a dizzying labyrinth of recurring themes, images and characters, all of whom are linked with elegant mathematical precision: God and suicide, food and poison, monks, athletes, soldiers and soccer...
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    23,40 €

  • The Fourth Circle
    Zoran Živković / Mary Popovic
    What could a computer wizard self-exiled in an abandoned Buddhist temple possibly have in common with the humble servant of a medieval fresco painter? What is the link between the enigmatic mission of a giant radio-telescope and a tribe of spherical beings who dwell in a world full of unearthly scents and herbs? What will bring four great scientists from various centuries, Arch...
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    23,55 €

  • First Contact and Time Travel
    Zoran Živković
    This volume collects both essays and fictional material around two core topics in the long career of the Serbian writer, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. The first topic - first contact - is chiefly represented by his comprehensive essay on 'The Theme of First Contact in the SF Works of Arthur C. Clarke' and reflected on the literary level with his short stories ...
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    30,02 €

  • The Image Interpreter
    Zoran Živković / Randall A. Major / Randall AMajor
    In a carriage of the Paris metro, nine people cross paths one ordinary Friday morning: a retired office worker who comes there purely to read; a tourist revisiting the memories of sixty years ago; a funeral mourner who has discovered the beauty of cemeteries; an author in search of her characters; a young man with a reality problem; an elderly woman with memory issues; a milita...
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    19,55 €

  • The Compendium of the Dead
    Zoran Živković / Vuk Tosic
    When certain mysterious events involving books occur, it seems that Inspector Dejan Lukic is always the man for the job. This time, however, things are a little different. Inspector Lukic himself is at the heart of the mystery, lured by the appearance of a number of packages addressed to him in person and left at several highly unlikely locations. The contents of these packages...
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    19,47 €

  • The Grand Manuscript
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    An empty apartment, locked from the inside: this is the mystery that literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukić, hero of Zoran Živković’s The Last Book, is called in to solve. What has become of the woman who lives there, bestselling detective fiction writer Jelena Jakovljević? And, perhaps more importantly still, what has happened to the manuscript of her newly-completed n...
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    19,35 €

  • The Last Book
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    A series of mysterious deaths in the Papyrus Bookstore brings literature-loving police inspector Dejan Lukić to investigate. Here he meets the attractive owner, Vera Gavrilović, and learns that the only thing the victims have in common is that in the moments before their deaths they were reading an elusive and unidentified volume — The Last Book.As the plot thickens and the see...
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    19,57 €

  • The Five Wonders of the Danube
    Zoran Živković / Alice Copple-Tosic
    On five bridges over the Danube, five strange and remarkable tales are told: tales of the sacrifices that are made for Art. For the painter, the sculptor, the writer and the composer, creation is inextricably entwined with violence, suffering and the darkest reaches of the psyche, and the bridge to enlightenment is the hardest of all to cross. Yet through the innocence of a dog...
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    19,51 €

  • Impossible Stories I
    Zoran Zivkovic / Alice Copple-Tosic
    Impossible Stories I is a collection of several of the author’s finest works, including Time Gifts, Impossible Encounters, Seven Touches of Music, The Library (winner of the World Fantasy Award), and Steps through the Mist. The perfect introduction to the incredible world of Zoran Živković. Impossible Stories might be approached as if one were inspecting a handsome piece of ...
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    40,99 €

  • ゾラン・ジヴコヴィッチの 不思議な物語
    Zoran Živković / ゾラン ジヴコヴィッチ
    近年大注目のセルビア・ベオグラード出身の現代作家、ゾラン・ジヴコヴィッチ(Živković)による摩訶不思議なストーリーを集めた傑作選。 ＳＦ、ポストモダン、シュールレアリスムと形容されるジヴコヴィッチの作品。シンプルな文章の背後に見え隠れするユーモアやシュールさ、知性や深みといっ たものが織り成す独特の世界。一見バラバラに見えていたパーツがクライマックスに近づくにつれて、ひとつの形をなしていくよう綿密に計算されたプロット。 シュールなファンタジーの名手として注目株のジヴコヴィッチの世界を、今回は日本語の翻訳でお届けいたします。The first Japanese-language introduction to the fascinating world of Serbian fantasy master Zoran Zivkovic. Conta...
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    15,77 €