Ghost geographies : fictions / Tamas Dobozy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobozy, Tamas, 1969- author.

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire.

Canadian fiction--21st century.

Canadian fiction.

Genre:

Satire.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

331 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : New Star Books, 2021.

Summary:

"Fleeing communist Budapest by air balloon, a wrestler tries to reinvent himself in Canada. On a formal invitation from the Party's General Secretary, a Belgian bureaucrat "defects" to communist Hungary, chasing the dream of a better world. Meanwhile, a provocateur filmmaker drinks and blasts his way to a final, celluloid confrontation with fascism, while an enfant terrible philosopher works on his prophetic, posthumously panned masterpiece, Dyschrony. These are among the decadent and absurd characters who hover around the promise and failure of utopia across the pages of Ghost Geographies. A polyphonic descendant of Kadare, Bolaño, and Sebald, Tamas Dobozy masterfully traces and thwarts the porous borders between fact, fiction, ideology, history and humor. "

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Hobo and the Archivist

Ray Electric

Four by Kline Caro

Lester's Exit

The Glory Days of Donkey Kong

The Rise and Rise and Rise of Thomas Sargis

Nom de Guerre

The New and Improved Oscar Teleki

Spires

Crosswords

Ghost Geographies

Krasnogorsk-2

Black Hearted Villains.

ISBN:

9781554201792

1554201799

OCLC:

1259402281

Publisher Number:

99989376432