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Making skeletons dance
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- Book Synopsis
- An introduction to the work of acerbic Slovak writer Peter Macsovszky. Simon Blef, who comes from "a small, stifling country without a sea" in some corner of Europe, has gone to live in the Netherlands. There he has found a wife and hopes he may yet find work. He is making preparations: he carries around a notebook and jots down his thoughts. One day he would like to write a novel, but in the meantime, he records, embellishes, invents, and combines what he sees with what he dreams: the happy, hard-working Dutch, with their seventy-year-old hippies-the "superannuated generation of rockers"- and their new "sexless generation," as well as the tourists and immigrants from beyond the seven seas. Set in a single day, Making Skeletons Dance is full of impressionistic musings, in equal measure mordant and humorous. Simon has left his small unhappy country to get away from the past-but how is it that the past is so devilishly resourceful, liable to turn up in any Amsterdam pub? As the afternoon wears on, the drama of his life unfolds in fascinating detail, be it comedy or tragedy, or both.
- About The Author
- Peter Macsovszky writes in Slovak and Hungarian. He is the author of various collections of experimental lyrical texts, and his novel Tantalópolis received the Anasoft Litera Prize in 2015.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781803094144
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Seagull Books, (13 May 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 385
- Weight
- 653 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 30 mm
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