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Other People Exist

Other People Exist

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Product Code:
1421-01
ISBN
978-619-152-497-6
SKU
18.0146
Year
24-09-2014
Translation
from English: Elitsa Stanoeva
Pages
220
Size
140/215 мм
Weight
0.32 kg
Cover Type
Paperback
Genre
Sociology, Essays, Short Stories

George Blecher

George Blecher

George Blecher is a fiction writer, literary translator (from Scandinavian languages) and journalist whose articles on American politics and culture appear in many European publications, both print and online, among them eurozine.com. He’s published fiction and non-fiction in New American Review, Ontario Review, St. Ann’s Review, The Nation, and New Republic, and his collection of stories, Other P…

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In 2009, a collection of short stories entitledAndre mennesker(“Other people exist”) was published in Danish, followed by Czech, Turkish and Bulgarian editions.

The book is consisted of a series of short artistic stories about crises in life, about relationships with others, about people. Blecher discusses the ways people are hurt - tragic and comical - thinking that they live in a universe where they are the only one existing.

Stories are written in several different styles and told by different people - different in age, class and gender, but all - sharing an impossibility or difficulty: to see beyond; like most postmodern people, the characters in this book live in a mutual isolation, if it can be called that way, trying to connect with other people, but often fail in their attempts.

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