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Minuet for Guitar

Zupan, Vitomil more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 9/12/2011
Place of Publication: United States

RRP: $29.95
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Taking cues from the wartime epics of Ford Madox Ford and Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Vitomil Zupan tells the harrowing story of partisan soldier Berk and his surreal experiences as a guerrilla during the Axis occupation of Ljubljana. Running parallel to the jumble of Berk s wartime experiences is his no less peculiar encounter with an old enemy during a vacation at a Spanish coastal resort. Together, the two men try to make sense of their wartime memories, leading past and future into a danse macabre undermining the certainties of each. A document of the horrors and tiny comedies of war, and an exploration of the nature of beauty and morality when subjected to the absurdity of history, Minuet for Guitar is an overwhelming literary achievement.