The Masterpiece

The Masterpiece
Ana Schnabl, David Limon
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 200pg
15 Oct 2021 UK
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9781912545896
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The golden 1980s in the Socialist Yugoslavia were a curious time, a time when the country undoubtedly already began its descent into disintegration, but when the bloody years that would follow still seemed inconceivable. A time of unprecedented freedom of thought and travel; a time of dissident movements and heady music and literary scenes. And yet it was also a time when the state still had a tight grip on the lives of its citizens, not least through its security services and its web of informants. We enter the story in 1985, and meet Adam, a professor of literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana who is trying his hand at writing again. Ana is the editor who receives his manuscript, ' The Masterpiece' . The protagonists soon cross the lines of their professional relationship and become entangled in an intense, adulterous affair. But Adam moves in dissident circles and Ana owes her position as the youngest editor in the history of the biggest state publishing house to her cooperation with the dark side of the government.
Ana Schnabl (1985) is a writer, journalist and literary critic. A doctoral student of philosophy since 2016, her research focuses on the female autobiography and confession and women in psychoanalysis. She has written for the literary journal Literatura and the online literary magazine AirBeletrina, has collaborated with the daily Dnevnik and is the first editor of the European Review of Poetry, Books and Culture. In 2014, her story MDMA was the winner of AirBeletrina' s short fiction contest. Her book debut, the short story collection Disentangling (Razvezani), was published in 2017 and among numerous other laurels received the Best Debut Award of the Slovenian Book Fair
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ISBN-13: 9781912545896
Published: 15 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Istros Books
Publisher: Istros Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 200

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