And other stories / Georgi Gospodinov ; translated from the Bulgarian by Alexis Levitin and Magdalena Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gospodinov, Georgi, 1968-

Contributor:

Levitin, Alexis.

Levy, Magdalena.

Series:

Writings from an unbound Europe

Standardized Title:

I drugi istorii. English

Language:

Bulgarian

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

81 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Wildly imaginative and endlessly entertaining, Georgi Gospodinov's short stories provide a hint of the narrative complexity of Borges and a whiff of the gritty realism of pre- and post-Communist life in Eastern Europe. These stories within stories and contemporary fables-whether a tongue-in-cheek crime story or the Christmas tale of a pig, a language game leading to an unexpected epiphany or an inward-looking tale built on the complexity of a puzzle box-come together in unique and surprising ways, offering readers a kaleidoscopic experience from one of Bulgaria's most critically acclaimed authors.

Contents:

Peonies and forget-me-nots

A second story

Station story

The eighth night

The man of many names

First steps

Christine waving from the train

On the stealing of stories

On the taste of names

The late gift

L.

The Christmas soul of a pig

The nightmare of a lady

A fly in the urinal

Forging the Bulgarian earring

Blind Vaysha

The third one

A living soul

One last tale of the nineties

Gaustine

The white pants of history.

Notes:

Originally published: Plovdiv : Izdatelska kǔshta "Zhanet-45", 2001.

ISBN:

9780810124318

0810124319

9780810124325

0810124327

OCLC:

122261810