Borislav Pekić

žanr-roman

Besnilo

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 building anew, and Housesis a book about a man, Arseniev Negoyan, who has devoted his life and his dreams to building. Bon vivant, Francophile, visionary, Negoyan spent the first half of his life building houses he loved and even gave names to-Juliana, Christina, Agatha-making his hometown of Belgrade into a modern city to be proud of. The second half of his life, after World War II and the Nazi occupation, he has spent in one of those houses, being looked after by his wife and a nurse, in hiding. Now, on the last day of his life, Negoyan has decided to go out at last to see what he has wrought. Negoyan is one of the great characters in modern fiction, a charming monster of selfishness and self-delusion. And for all his failings, his life poses a question for the rest of us- Where in the modern world is there a home except in illusion?

Houses

epos

Atlantida

Borislav Pekic

Borislav Pekic's 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 immediately preceded Germany's attack on Belgrade in the spring of 1941 and the turmoil of Serbia's entry into World War I. Pekic relates his tale through the character of Arsenie Negovan, one of the prime builders of houses in Belgrade. Although Arsenie is dying, losing his sanity as his life seeps away, his narrative is sustained by his intellectual and aesthetic vision, by his love of buildings and his passionate obsession with the houses of Belgrade. Through this metaphor of the gradual decline of a builder's mind, Pekic gives us a compelling look at the unspoken fear of loss and destruction in a chronically disrupted urban society.

The Houses of Belgrade

Dragoslav Jovanović

Predrag Gikić

po noveli Borislava Pekića

Čovek koji je jeo smrt

sotija : London 1971/1972

Kako upokojiti vampira

Човекът, който ядеше смъртта

Odbrana i poslednji dani

Uspenje i sunovrat Ikara Gubelkijana

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 on the miracles of the New Testament, the book rewrites the story of Jesus from the perspective of Judas (who is obsessed with the idea prophecy must be fulfilled) and from that of the individuals upon whom miracles were performed--without their consent and, in most cases, to their eventual dissatisfaction. Filled with humor and poignancy, The Time of Miracles is a trenchant commentary on the power of ideology in one's life, upon what it means to hold beliefs, and upon the nature of faith.

The Time of Miracles

Stephen M. Dickey

Bogdan Rakić

A study of terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner

A Sotie

How to Quiet a Vampire

gotska hronika

Novi Jerusalim

Odabrana dela Borislava Pekića: U Edenu, na istoku

Odabrana dela Borislava Pekića: Vreme čuda

Korespondencija kao život: Pisma Ljljani, 1970-1971

Borislav Pekić

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