The rise and fall of Parkinson's disease / Svetislav Basara ; translated from the Serbian by Randall A. Major.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basara, Svetislav, 1953- Author.

Contributor:

Major, Randall A., translator.

Standardized Title:

Uspon i pad parkinsonove bolesti. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/e0c730b6-5c9a-3c57-a374-4c8bfcc9c271

Language:

English

Serbian

Genre:

Novels.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First English edition.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, TX : Dalkey Archive Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Exploring sanity and insanity, truth and untruth, The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease is Svetislav Basara's unblinking and unforgettable deconstruction of the Soviet psyche. Told as an eclectic collection of appropriated testimonies, treatises, missives, and police files, The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease follows the progression of the contagion's patient zero, a Soviet citizen (sometimes) named Demyan Lavrentyevich Parkinson, as he ascends from hellish health to the sacred illness. Hailed as one of Serbia's most influential living writers, Svetislav Basara's scathing, irreverent critiques of authoritarianism have twice won him Serbia's prestigious NIN Award. In The Rise and Fall of Parkinson's Disease, Basara lives up to this reputation with a book as formally ambitious as it is intellectually sophisticated. His blend of grotesque absurdism and wry humor evokes the paranoid, vexing worlds of Franz Kafka's novels and the meta-textual assemblages of Paul Auster. Told from a colorful range of perspectives, the novel is a multifaceted, crystalline account of truth, lies, and history, a sprawling case study of humans in an inhuman society"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in Serbian as Uspon i pad parkinsonove bolesti, by Derts, Belgrade, Serbia 2006.

Other Format:

Online version Basara, Svetislav, 1953- Rise and fall of Parkinson's disease

ISBN:

9781628976328

1628976322

OCLC:

1484905501

Publisher Number:

90104101981