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August After Midnight
Luka Bekavac
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Description for August After Midnight
Hardback. August After Midnight
August After Midnight is a Croatian novel about memory, trauma and transcommunication: a triptych of different voices, weaving together historiography, speculative fiction and highly stylized prose. It opens with “August”, a monologue inviting readers into the thoughts of a young woman living with her sister on a frontier of sorts, a virtual outpost in the otherwise uninhabited Slavonian plains. This poetic and fragmentary narrative, removed from any recognizable timeline, revolves around themes of solitude and recollection, nature and technology, the final stages of decaying civilizations, as well as the possibility of transcommunication – contact with “the ‘beyond.” ... Read more
August After Midnight is a Croatian novel about memory, trauma and transcommunication: a triptych of different voices, weaving together historiography, speculative fiction and highly stylized prose. It opens with “August”, a monologue inviting readers into the thoughts of a young woman living with her sister on a frontier of sorts, a virtual outpost in the otherwise uninhabited Slavonian plains. This poetic and fragmentary narrative, removed from any recognizable timeline, revolves around themes of solitude and recollection, nature and technology, the final stages of decaying civilizations, as well as the possibility of transcommunication – contact with “the ‘beyond.” ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Fraktura
Condition
New
Format
Hardback
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9789533584515
SKU
9789533584515
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Ref
99-2
About Luka Bekavac
Luka Bekavac (born in Osijek, Croatia, 1976) teaches literary theory at the University of Zagreb. He has published five books of fiction: the novels Drenje (2011), Viljevo (2013), Policijski sat: slutnje, uspomene (2015) and Urania (2022), and a short story collection Galerija likovnih umjetnosti u Osijeku: studije, ruševine (2017). His work is recognized for its combination of speculative ... Read more
Reviews for August After Midnight
This novel does not condescend to its readers. It goes against the grain and offers them a chance for serious interpretation and theoretical reflection. (Anera Ryznar, Zarez)