Elvis ze Záluží

These twenty-four stories look at breaking points in the lives of individuals and of society, often mirrored in each other: love's awakenings and failures, and the workings of human relationships against the arrival and departure of different regimes. Around them appear the phenomena of their times: expulsions and 'transfers', shifting moods, the birth and death of idols and fetishes, media manipulation and the tabloids, and ordinary violence sprouting inside respectable bourgeois life. Told with irony, travesty and black humour, the hyperrealistic tales suddenly jump into surreal improbability and clownish escapades, with horror and detective pastiches and magical intrusions of the inhuman.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

258 pages in the original

First published

2018 by Argo

Author's age

67 when first published

ISBN

9788025724149 (original)