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Double Negative
Ivan Vladislavic
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One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today. --Andre Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during South Africa's extraordinary revolution. Ivan Vladislavic lays moments side by side like photographs on a table. He lucidly portrays a city and its many lives through reflections on memory, art, and what we should really be seeking. Ivan Vladislavic is the author of a number of prize-winning fiction and nonfiction books. He currently lives ... Read more
One of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today. --Andre Brink Originally part of a collaborative project with photographer David Goldblatt, Double Negative is a subtle triptych that captures the ordinary life of Neville Lister during South Africa's extraordinary revolution. Ivan Vladislavic lays moments side by side like photographs on a table. He lucidly portrays a city and its many lives through reflections on memory, art, and what we should really be seeking. Ivan Vladislavic is the author of a number of prize-winning fiction and nonfiction books. He currently lives ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
And Other Stories
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
High Wycombe, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908276261
SKU
V9781908276261
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99-15
About Ivan Vladislavic
IVAN VLADISLAVIC is the author of the novels The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, The Exploded View and Double Negative. The last of these appeared initially in TJ/Double Negative, a joint project with the photographer David Goldblatt. Vladislavic has written extensively about Johannesburg, notably in Portrait with Keys (2006). He has edited volumes on architecture and art, and published a monograph ... Read more
Reviews for Double Negative
'Vladislavic's narrative intelligence [is] nowhere more visible than in his way with language itself. Each section is perfectly judged; we enter incidents in medias res - as though they were piano etudes - and exit them before we have overstayed our welcome.' Teju Cole
- 'Vladislavic is sensitively attuned to the uncanny phenomena that explode from ... Read more
- 'Vladislavic is sensitively attuned to the uncanny phenomena that explode from ... Read more