Aleksandar Prokopiev

Homunculus (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen "fairy tales for adults" with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with.

Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more "mature" themes too - the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as "Tom Thumb", where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or "The Huntsman", told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Istros Books
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908236555
• Artikelnr.: 59551948

Autorenporträt

Aleksandar Prokopiev graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, General and Comparative literature department, and finished his postgraduate education in Belgrade and at the Sorbonne. He has published 13 books of stories and essays, as well as a novella, The Peeper. He has worked as a editor of several magazines, and was a member of the editorial board of Orient Express and World Haiku, and presently for POEM Magazine. He has written screenplays for film, theater, TV shows, radio dramas, and comic books, and his works have been translated into many languages. Prokopiev is also the Artistic Director of the Pro-Za Balkan International Festival of Literature, Skopje, Macedonia. Will Firth is one of the leading translators from Russian, Serbo-Croat, and Macedonian into English, and is accredited as a translator with NAATI (the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, Australia). His translations include Spahic's Hansen's Children; Nikolaidis' The Coming and The Son; Perisic's Our Man in Iraq and Ekaterini; and Gatalica's The Great War.