The Gorgons

Real and invented people of different origins and languages, among them Brecht, Beuys and Django, are stretched across a time bounded by the world wars, both the destructive ones and the cold one. They resist that time, which pulls them ever faster into its whirlpool, with art, friendships and secret or forbidden loves, by withdrawing into the shadows or into emigration, and they suffer its wounds. The book follows them through the cities and countries of fascism, the camps and the refuges of exile, from Berlin and Moscow to Zagreb, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris, and the death cities of the European east.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

139 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

Germany, Russia, Croatia, Denmark, Spain, France, 20th century

First published

2017 by Geopoetika

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9788661452734 (original)

9788661453533 (Geopoetika, Serbia)