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Eight stories, among them 'The Magic Parrot and Other Kitsch', 'Midlife Crisis', 'Gaspar, Melchior, Balthazarová', 'Mister Memories' and 'A Poem in Prose', in which serious and grotesque situations and characters meet. Most are the author's memories of socialism, or memoirs from that time, and they play with kitsch, asking why one sentence makes something art and another does not, and with popular genres such as the detective story, horror and fantasy. The characters prefer to remember fondly and with discipline, aware that remembering is no longer what it was and that it cannot make real what never happened.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

127 pages in the original

Genres

Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2005 by Slovenský spisovateľ

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

8022013226 (original)

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