Po njihovih besedah

The frame is the writer Pavel at work on a novel, constantly questioning his own methods, from intuitive choices and the wish to please readers to the hunt for the right word. His material is the autobiographies of three very different men whose fates fascinate him: Heinrich Schliemann, the resourceful German-Russian merchant and amateur archaeologist who discovered Troy; Karl May, the hugely popular writer of adventure stories who often strayed outside the law; and the cryptic P., head of counter-intelligence in a country that must not be named. Pavel gives each a mode of his own: Schliemann's life is told as an epic, P.'s from within, May's as drama. Taking liberties with the facts, he exposes the lies the men told about themselves, and the limits of fiction too.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

429 pages in the original

First published

2014 by Modrijan

Author's age

46 when first published

ISBN

9789612418687 (original)