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Do you like "lovelies"? Whatever you think about them, you'll enjoy this superb pastiche of trivial romance novels.
Mimesis is a drastic portrayal of Montenegro as a country of retarded discourses, and after several published excerpts of the manuscript, it has already initiated public condemnation in the writer's country.
He has marked the contemporary era like few others, and his heroes or "heroes" with their emotional and moral dilemmas, weighed down by existential anxiety and news of cataclysms and possible apocalypses, are closer to us than ever.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
Parallel World is considered Benedikt's boldest and most influential novel, a true pioneering work in which he first publicly presented his "theory of parallel dimensions" which would later become the backbone of his entire oeuvre.
The story, centered on the brilliant forger Mihovil, criticizes the literature and art of our time. It also reflects on a society that is ready to adapt the coordinates of history to its own needs.