"Building can be seen as a master metaphor for modernity, which some great irresistibleforce, be it Fascism or Communism or capitalism, is always busy rebuilding, and "Houses" is a book about a man, Arsenie Negovan, who has devoted his life andhis dreams to building. Bon vivant, Francophile, visionary, Negovan spent the first half of his life building houses he loved and even named Juliana, Christina, Agatha while making his hometown of ..."
The Apology and the Last Days(1st Edition) A Novel (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by BorislavPekic, Bojan Misic Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2012 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-2823-1, ISBN: 0-8101-2823-3
" Originally published in 1975, The Apology and the Last Days is the final volume in a trilogy of novels—also including The Rise and Fall of Icarus Gubelkian and How to Quiet a Vampire—about the aftermath of World War II, by Borislav Pekić, one of the former Yugoslavia’s most important postwar writers. The narrator tells his story from prison, where he is serving time for the murder of a former Nazi official. As the novel unfolds, we lea ..."
"The disquieting novel How to Quiet a Vampire is a rumination on terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner. Published to acclaim in 1977, Pekic's novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski, professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer, as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. In a series of letters, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent re ..."
The Houses of Belgrade(1st Edition) (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by BorislavPekic, Bernard Johnson Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 1994 by Northwestern University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8101-1141-7, ISBN: 0-8101-1141-1
"The Houses of Belgrade, first published in 1970, draws a parallel between the unrest culminating in the Belgrade student riots of 1968 and that at two earlier points in the history of Yugoslavia: the riots which preceded Germany's 1941 attack on Belgrade and the turmoil of Serbia's entry into WWI. Pekic relates his tale through Negovan, one of Belgrade's prime builders of houses, and through the metaphor of the gradual decline of the bu ..."
"Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first novel, The Time of Miracles, was published and became an overnight sensation. A set of parables based on the miracles of the New Testament, the book rewrites the story of Jesus from the perspective of Judas (who is obsessed with the idea prophecy must be fulfilled) and from that of the indiv ..."
"The disquieting novel How to Quiet a Vampire is a rumination on terror and intellect in the tradition of Joseph Heller and George Steiner. Published to acclaim in 1977, Pekic's novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski, professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer, as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. In a series of letters, Rutkowski lays out his ambivalent re ..."
"Borislav Pekic spent six years in jail as a political prisoner, his only reading material the Bible. In 1965, ten years after his pardon, his first novel, The Time of Miracles, was published and became an overnight sensation. A set of parables based on the miracles of the New Testament, the book rewrites the story of Jesus from the perspective of Judas (who is obsessed with the idea prophecy must be fulfilled) and from that of the indiv ..."
Houses by BorislavPekic 240 Pages, Published 2016 by New York Review Of Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59017-948-2, ISBN: 1-59017-948-X
"In 1970, Houses won the prestigious NIN Award for best Serbian novel, and
Pekić managed to obtain a passport and emigrate to London. Living as an
expatriate he continued to write novels and advocate for democratic reform. In all,
Pekić would write more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction and saw some
two dozen of his plays produced for the stage. Among his notable works are Kako
upokojiti Vampira (translated into English as ..."
"De sa main droite, Popier enregistrait les condamnations, de la gauche, il arrachait de petits morceaux de celle qu''il avait volée, les portait à sa bouche en faisant attention à ce qu''on ne le voie pas et les avalait après les avoir humectés sous sa langue. Puis sa main se glissait à nouveau sous son vêtement, à la recherche d''une autre bouchée. C''est ainsi que Jean-Louis Popier, greffier du tribunal institué par la grande Révoluti ..."
"The Houses of Belgrade, first published in 1970, draws a parallel between the unrest culminating in the Belgrade student riots of 1968 and that at two earlier points in the history of Yugoslavia: the riots which preceded Germany's 1941 attack on Belgrade and the turmoil of Serbia's entry into WWI. Pekic relates his tale through Negovan, one of Belgrade's prime builders of houses, and through the metaphor of the gradual decline of the bu ..."
"Cinq siècles d’histoire mouvementée des Balkans sont livrés ici en une fantasmagorie littéraire qui retrace l’ascension sociale et la chute d’une puissante famille serbe d’origine aroumaine : une saga en sept registres nourris de la mythologie qui accompagne l’errance de ce peuple et tourne en dérision les mirages de la société marchande. Où l’on voit que la quête de La Toison d’or se confond avec une recherche du profit et du gain qui ..."
Novi Jerusalim by BorislavPekic Paperback, Published 2016 by Laguna ISBN-13: 978-86-521-0862-6, ISBN: 86-521-0862-5
Vreme cuda by BorislavPekic Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2014 by Laguna ISBN-13: 978-86-521-0863-3, ISBN: 86-521-0863-3
""Knjiga o čudima nove ere..." NIN
Živimo u vremenu čuda u kome su čuda okrenuta protiv čoveka.
"Od čuda se ne zahteva da pomažu već da menjaju, a od ovih najvećih ne da izopačuju sadašnjost već da razgrađujući je, grade budućnost." Borislav Pekić
Okvir ovog Pekićevog maestralnog romana, sastavljenog iz priča, jesu biblijski motivi Isusovih čuda u Judeji. Sa poetičnom dijalektikom ona su izokrenuta u svoju suprotnost sa puno humora al ..."
Graditelji by BorislavPekic Paperback, Published 2014 by Laguna ISBN-13: 978-86-521-1497-9, ISBN: 86-521-1497-8
""A sada više nema šta da se kaže sem da se usrdnom molitvom prizove Bog da blagoslovi početak ove gradnje, da ga obdari svojom bezmernom milošću i praštanjem za zablude koje će pisca, nema sumnje, upravljati na njegovom trudnom hodočašću u prošlost. Ali, ovako ili onako, neka bude volja Njegova post hominum memoriam." Borislav Pekić Graditelji su zasigurno jedini Pekićev roman u kojem neke epizode imaju autobiografski karakter. Ovim rom ..."
Sabrana pisma iz tudjine by BorislavPekic Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 2012 by Jp Sluzbeni Glasnik ISBN-13: 978-86-519-0561-5, ISBN: 86-519-0561-0
Ljetopis vjecnosti gradja za roman o smrti i vaskrsenju Simona Rujanica iz Pelinova (komadi izgubljene price ) by BorislavPekic, Zarko Komanin Paperback, Published 2009 by Srpska Knjizevna Zadruga ISBN-13: 978-86-379-1076-3, ISBN: 86-379-1076-9
"Na prvi pogled bi se reklo da je "prokleta tastina umetnika" ono sto prouzrokuje moralni sunovrat Pekicevog junaka, u trenutku kada on, posle pada u drugom pokusaju skoka, s osmehom ustaje sa leda, prihvatajuci nesporazum sa publikom kao - uprosceno receno - put uspeha po cenu gubitka duse. Na tom mestu, medjutim, prica o Ikaru Gubelkijanu iz etickih, psiholoskih i politickih sfera zalazi i u prostore filozofije umetnosti, gde dobija p ..."