Borislav Pekic

• Feb-1977
• / General Fiction
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Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first novel, The Time of Miracles, was published and became an overnight sensation. A set of parables based ...

• 1978
• / General Fiction
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"The Houses of Belgrade, " first published in 1970, draws a parallel between the unrest culminating in the Belgrade student riots of 1968 and that at two earlier points in the history of Yugoslavia: the riots which preceded Germany's 1941 attack on B...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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The disquieting novel How to Quiet a Vampire is a rumination on terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner. Published to acclaim in 1977, Pekic's novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski, professor of medieval history a...

• Jul-2012
• / General Fiction
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Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels -- also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire -- about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one...

• May-2016
• / Historical
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Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistible force, be it Fascism or Communism or capitalism, is always busy rebuilding, and Houses is a book about a man, Arsénie Negovan, who has devoted his life and...