Calypso

Calypso

Ognjen Spahić

Condensed, without interruptions, without dialogue, in one chapter, masterfully written, meticulously created, Calypso is Ognjen Spahić's tour de force.

When Martin Dedijer decides to end the world of the Dedijer family, a world that was marked by the life and death of his father, the sailor Maksim, whose life ended at the bottom of the Black Sea in the shipwreck of the merchant ship Bianca Stella, he will do so unconditionally and forever, hanging from a conifer near the town where he grew up. The thread of the rope on which he hangs will also unravel the evil fate of the Dedijer family, from his forefather Tod and his sister Natalija, through his father Maksim and mother Marija to the most hidden family secret.

Spahić's Martin is an emblematic hero of post-transition, he is Telemachus who, following the seed of his father, wanders from the apartment where he grows up to the long-abandoned mountain village that is guarded only by an empty grave with Maksim's name. In his searches, he always reaches the center of the labyrinth, but his thread is just a thread of rope. The tragedy of the Dedijer family is classic and eternal, it is entangled in an inextricable connection between the past and the present, the eternal struggle of eros and thanatos, in which neither the nymph Calypso nor the legendary ship of the same name by the oceanographer Cousteau can be liberating, because the cave in which the Dedijer family rests is as dark and dead as the bottom of the Black Sea.

Editor
Seid Serdarević
Graphics design
Ivana Jurić
Dimensions
23 x 15 cm
Pages
627
Publisher
Fraktura, Zaprešić, 2017.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.
ISBN
978-9-53266-872-8

One copy is available

Condition:Used, excellent condition
 

Are you interested in another book? You can search the offer using our search engine or browse books by category.

You may also be interested in these titles

Hansenova djeca

Hansenova djeca

Ognjen Spahić

Hansen's Children is a thrilling and terrifying story about the fate of prisoners in Europe's last leper colony, in southern Romania; forgotten during the fall of a totalitarian regime.

Durieux, 2004.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
8.326.66
Pod oba sunca

Pod oba sunca

Ognjen Spahić

On a secluded lighthouse, former first-class captain Branimir Bato Lončar and his wife Danica live a monotonous everyday life, occasionally disturbed by a stray tourist or a boat in danger.

Fraktura, 2020.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
11.48
Saturnovi prstenovi

Saturnovi prstenovi

Vinfrid Georg Zebald

A dreamy book that dives into the best possible prose of the entire European literature of the 20th century.

Plato, 2006.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
9.647.23
Melanholija 1-2

Melanholija 1-2

Jun Fose

Combining historical facts with fiction, the author draws us deep into the world of the artist's thin soul, whose vulnerability is caused by his tragic end, but who also possesses an incredible gift to see the divine beauty of the world where others would

Blum izdavaštvo, 1995.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
12.2611.03
Sasvim obične besmislice

Sasvim obične besmislice

Daniil Harms

Ignored and harassed by the authorities, surviving on the help of relatives and publishing children's rhymes, this ingenious marginal left behind a veritable treasure trove of strange stories and twisted thoughts in his notes and notebooks.

Šareni dućan, 1999.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
10.14
Poziv na pogubljenje

Poziv na pogubljenje

Vladimir Nabokov

There is no doubt that it is most attractive to read The Call to Execution as it appears to be written, as an anti-utopian or anti-totalitarian novel...

Nolit, 1988.
Serbian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
12.32