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Zoran Živković
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Četvrti krug (Polaris, 1993)The Fourth Circle (Ministry of Whimsy Press, 2004), tr. Mary Popović, afterword (1) "A Brief History of The Fourth Circle" by Zoran Živković, af... -
Photo by Nebojsa Babic Zoran Živković (b. 1948) is the author of nineteen works of fiction. Translations of Živković’s prose books have appeared in more than...
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While waiting for a train, a woman enters a teashop and decides to act with uncharacteristically reckless abandon. She orders the most unusual tea on the menu: tea with stories. In this...
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Only a few years after his birth in 1948, Zoran Živković fell in love with literature. Like so many, he was initially drawn by the "irresistibly enchanting impression that whenever I opened a book i...
Nov. 2011
In this issue of WLT, a special section devoted to Post-Soviet Literature features recent work from Russia and other former republics, twenty years after the collapse of the regime.
Table of Contents
Post-Soviet Literature: Twenty Years After the Fall
- INTRO: "Twenty Years after the Collapse of the Soviet Union: Russian and East European Literature Today," Emily D. Johnson
- ESSAY: "Censorship in Russia: Old and New Faces," Nadezhda Azhgikhina
- ESSAY: Poetry in the Cloud: An Experiment, Results, and n+1 Hypotheses
- POETRY: "a poem about Lillebror and Karlsson," Igor Belov
- "Untitled," Semyon Khanin
- "Untitled," Artur Punte
- "Glory to Heroes," Feodor Swarovski
- "Truths," Sergej Timofejev
- "Artemis," Viktor Ivaniv
- "ship of goblins," Ksenia Shcherbino
- FICTION: "Petrov and Markov," Oleg Woolf
- ESSAY: "Re-Visioning the Past: Russian Literary Classics in Film," Catharine Nepomnyashchy
- POETRY: "The Rock or, A Third Anecdote about Wallace Stevens," Grigory Kruzhkov
- EXCERPT: The Button, Iren Rozdobudko
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READING LIST: WLT's Post-Soviet Reading List -
VIDEO: Multimedia poetry from Orbita 4
Zoran Živković
- Zoran Živković: A Biographical Sketch
- "Rendezvous in Front of the House," Zoran Živković
- "The Metaphysical Fantasias of Zoran Živković," Michael Morrison
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FICTION: "The Teashop," Zoran Živković
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INTERVIEW: "Fantastika and the Literature of Serbia: A Conversation with Zoran Živković," Michael A. Morrison
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A Bibliography of the Works of Zoran Živković
INTERVIEWS
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"My Life as Cinema: A Conversation with Samuel Shimon"
- "Literary Cairo, A Conversation with Samia Mehrez," Michelle Johnson
FICTION
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"The Demon of Hunger," Tania Malyarchuk
- "Shiki Nagaoka: A Nose for Fiction," Mario Bellatin
POETRY
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Three Poems by Askold Bazhanov
- Two Poems, Alistair Noon
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