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Flashback hotel : early stories
- Title
- Flashback hotel : early stories / Iwafervan Vladislavic.̆.
- Author
- Vladislavić, Ivan, 1957-
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFC 20-46 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 441 pages; 17 cm
- Summary
- "With a tender wit, Vladislavic cuts through the ordinary, the profound, and the truly perplexing to reveal absurdities and truisms alike. In these two collections from South Africa's most renowned writer, each story follows its own dream logic, each sentence constructed with an architect's precision. In the first collection, 'Missing Persons,' a man learns he can abduct dignitaries from his TV, and keeps them in a menagerie in his spare bedroom; elsewhere, a runaway statue falls in love with a young refugee woman. Vladislavic paints the deliciously surreal with a deftness that belies his dark satires. The later stories from 'Propaganda by Monuments' are more grounded in reality, but no less wildly imaginative. A man follows Elvis Presley on a comical odyssey through the streets of Johannesburg; a white tuba player harasses a black Salvation Army band, only to be mysteriously swept up in their music. Each miniature world in Flashback Hotel is a recognizable yet madly distorted South Africa, veering into either dream or nightmare"--
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Contents
- Missing persons -- The prime minister is dead -- Flashback Hotel -- Sightseeing -- Journal of a wall -- The box -- Movements -- We came to the monument -- A science of fragments -- Tsafendas's diary -- When my hands burst into flames -- The terminal bar -- Propaganda by monuments the tuba -- Propaganda by monuments -- Autopsy -- The whites only bench -- The omniscope (pat. pending) -- The book lover -- Alphabets for surplus people -- Courage -- Isle of Capri -- "Kidnapped" -- The firedogs.
- Call Number
- JFC 20-46
- ISBN
- 9781939810113
- 1939810116
- 9781939810120 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018058740
- OCLC
- 1035459042
- Author
- Vladislavić, Ivan, 1957- author.
- Title
- Flashback hotel : early stories / Iwafervan Vladislavic.̆.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Research Call Number
- JFC 20-46