Mariborská hypnóza

Commissioned as a guidebook to the Slovenian city of Maribor, this book turns into something else. Its guide is a housefly, who sees everything sped up, blurred and from every direction at once. Through her mosaic eyes the present meets the past and reality meets tall tales: a half-forgotten hypnotist, Svengali, born near Maribor at the end of the nineteenth century, crosses paths with metal-festival visitors, dictators and kebab sellers, meets Jaroslav Hašek and Josip Tito, and falls in love with his assistant Elis, with whom he puts Nazi armies to sleep. Encyclopedic facts about flies, strange and ordinary stories of real, invented and chance-met people, propaganda and magic mingle in a fragile love story.

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About the book

Form

Novella

Length

136 pages in the original

Genres

Love, Historical, Speculative (assigned by AI)

Set in

Slovenia

First published

2025 by Větrné mlýny

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788074435492 (original)