Luka bekavac (16 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: New. 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." "After Midnight" is a raw and intense document of one such attempt: a series of questions and answers between the characters of "August" and their inscrutable counterparts. At times chilling, at times hilarious, this section casts the opening monolog in an entirely new light. The final chapter, "Markovic", is a multilayered and meticulously written journal article. It examines the events portrayed in the first two chapters from yet a different perspective, that of a small cell operating a clandestine anti-Fascist radio station in Osijek in 1943. The events, though long past, have dogged the article's author, and this article represents his attempt to find an explanation, both for the phenomenon he witnessed and for his inability to let it go. The novel is at once a thriller, a ghost story and a work of science fiction. Few writers are capable of handling genres so skillfully, but Luka Bekavac does so, and harnesses not only his own but the reader's imagination to create the worlds in this novel. Like Markovic, the reader will not soon forget the characters, events and ramifications of August After Midnight.Translated, from the Croatian, by Ellen Elias-Bursac.…

Condición: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: New.

HRD. Condición: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condición: New. Idioma/Language: Español. Empezar la lectura de Viljevo es atreverse a dar el paso que separa el terreno seguro del comienzo del bosque, cruzar esa frontera que marca la diferencia entre la certeza y la invención, que tantas veces nos conduce al descubrimiento. En esta novela galardonada en 2014 con el Janko Poli Kamov Award y en 2015 con el European Union Prize for Literature, el croata Luka Bekavac enfrenta dos tiempos que transcurren en un mismo lugar y, a través de una serie de personajes únicos y códigos poco habituales, nos habla del dolor de la guerra y de la importancia del futuro. Enmarcada sin duda en el contexto de la mejor ciencia ficción contemporánea y comparable a relatos audiovisuales como los que protagonizan la serie Black Mirror, Viljevo supone sin duda una de las apuestas seguras de la actual literatura de género; la recuperación de sensaciones que sólo grandes maestros como Lem, Bradbury o Asimov han logrado provocar en el lector. *** Nota: Los envíos a España peninsular, Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente. No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla.…

Condición: New. August After Midnight.

Condición: New. August After Midnight.

Condición: New.

Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 240 pages. In Stock.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Card covers are lightly shelf marked, edges bumped; binding is tight; pages are unmarked, Monika Herceg postcard laid in. ; 4.2 x 1 x 5.75 inches; 277 pages.

Condición: New.

Condición: New.

Condición: Nuevo. EMPEZAR LA LECTURA DE VILJEVO ES ATREVERSE A DAR EL PASO QUE SEPARA EL TERRENO SEGURO DEL COMIENZO DEL BOSQUE, CRUZAR ESA FRONTERA QUE MARCA LA DIFERENCIA ENTRE LA CERTEZA Y LA INVENCIóN, QUE TANTAS VECES NOS CONDUCE AL DESCUBRIMIENTO.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Hardback. Condición: New. 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." "After Midnight" is a raw and intense document of one such attempt: a series of questions and answers between the characters of "August" and their inscrutable counterparts. At times chilling, at times hilarious, this section casts the opening monolog in an entirely new light. The final chapter, "Markovic", is a multilayered and meticulously written journal article. It examines the events portrayed in the first two chapters from yet a different perspective, that of a small cell operating a clandestine anti-Fascist radio station in Osijek in 1943. The events, though long past, have dogged the article's author, and this article represents his attempt to find an explanation, both for the phenomenon he witnessed and for his inability to let it go. The novel is at once a thriller, a ghost story and a work of science fiction. Few writers are capable of handling genres so skillfully, but Luka Bekavac does so, and harnesses not only his own but the reader's imagination to create the worlds in this novel. Like Markovic, the reader will not soon forget the characters, events and ramifications of August After Midnight.Translated, from the Croatian, by Ellen Elias-Bursac.…

Paperback. Condición: New.