Puteni nametnik

A novel that keeps asking how a novel is written: it opens with a prologue and a set of instructions, carries two kinds of footnotes, one of memories and one of alternative realities, along with advertisements, pictures in every margin, pages in other colours and a psycho-tourist guide through consciousness and conscience. Underneath runs the story of a family. The mother suffers from metaphysics and falls apart into structures, hoping to be cured by neoliberalism; the father works as an eavesdropper in a state agency that spies on language; their son goes through a 'de-resurrection' while looking for work in the private-religious sector. Around them move a transplanter of phrases, a teacher of telepathy and an ethics operative who is half god, half devil, in a playful book about love and death, reality and illusion.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

224 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Durieux

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9789531884099 (original)