- NIN Prize 2006 · Shortlist
Lake Como
Komo
Srđan Valjarević (born 1967)
Translated by Alice Copple-Tošić
English editions
In EnglishLake Como
Geopoetika · Serbia · 2009 · Paperback · 213 pages
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People have always left this country, the narrator says, but he has gone only for a month. A Belgrade writer from a circle that never had money for travel and drank late into the night instead, he spends a fellowship stay on Lake Como, below the Alps. Expected to play the part of a public writer in the wider world, he keeps to his own intimate life: lying on a bench on a hill called Tragedia, drawing a mountain and a bird in a small notebook, drinking, and drifting towards nature, the village below and its local people. The book is a contemplative, diary-like chronicle of that month, honest and self-mocking.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 209 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Italy
- First published
- 2006 by Samizdat B92
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9788679632746 (original)
9788676661916 (Geopoetika, Serbia)