Ballerina, Ballerina A Novel by Marko Sosic

Ballerina, Ballerina A Novel by Marko Sosic

The narrator of this novel is Ballerina, a fifteen-year-old with the cognitive faculties of a child, and each of its fifteen chapters begins with her first wetting her bed and thereby greeting a new day. Drawing comparison to William Faulkner in its expressionistic depiction of Ballerina's interior world, this is a classic of contemporary Slovenian literature: a hugely popular exploration of a character whose world is so divorced from what we think of as reality.

Ballerina, Ballerina is a painful and poetic reconstruction of its narrator's fractured worldview.. in both the details of her family life and the bits of the mass-media reality that flow beyond the boundaries of her backyard... [she] is unreliable, disoriented, atemporal. -- Vladislava Gordic Petkovic While Sosic's brand of Continental modernism can be challenging, he is masterful in achieving his apparent aim: placing the reader within a totally different consciousness. Publishers Weekly

Marko Sosic was born in Trieste in 1958. He has directed at various Slovenian and Italian theaters, as well as for television and radio. He started publishing fiction in the late '80s, and is the author of several books, including a collection of short stories and an autobiographical novel about his time in the theater. Ballerina, Ballerina, his first novel, received the Vstajenje Award, and also earned him the first Citta' di Sal Prize in 2005. In 2007, the Slovenian Pen Club nominated the novel for the international Strega Europeo Award, and it has been selected for inclusion in the "100 Slavic Novels" project.

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ISBN 13	9781628970975
ISBN 10	1628970979
Title	Ballerina, Ballerina A Novel
Author	Marko Sosic
Series	Slovenian Literature Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dalkey Archive Press
Year published	2014-10-30
Number of pages	97
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.