Гледната точка на Гоген

Stories full of expressive imagery and unusual plots, whose characters are citizens of the world: they move between Berlin and Sozopol, Sydney and Borovets, Montpellier and Sofia's Pirogov hospital, and after years of wandering always come back home. Here are Paganini, the great liar of Iskar Street; Dr Kapreliyan, who knows life is not worth living unless you are God in someone's eyes; the philosopher Atanas and his wondrous chair; and Plyushkin, half beast, half man, with a powerful four-legged body and a poet's face. The title story sets two views of art against each other: the narrator's, for whom it means success and outward glitter, and that of a painter who believes art is made in secret and demands sacrifice. A playful cycle about Princess Yanik closes the book.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

173 pages in the original

First published

2008 by Zahariy Stoyanov

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9789540901800 (original)