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The land of the past of Guéorgui Gospodinov: duties of memory

2021-12-08T15:36:29.793Z


CRITICAL - The Bulgarian novelist publishes an extravagant novel, made up of variations on the themes of the past, memory and oblivion. Magistral.


“I have two masters in writing Jorge Luis Borges and my grandmother.

Both have been able to conceive and develop stories with incredible force, subtly mixing realism and myths. "

We took this confidence from Bulgarian novelist Guéorgui Gospodinov (53) in Sofia, in a trendy place located a stone's throw from the Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Cathedral.

It is a good introduction to approaching the abundant and unique work of this gifted writer, translated into twenty languages, invited to Paris as part of the Un week-end à l'Est festival.

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His third novel, the vertiginous

Country of the past

, has just been published.

An unclassifiable work, a baroque, earthy story, mixed with reflections on time, memory - intimate and collective - and oblivion.

We find there his alter ego, the strange Gaustine, who crosses times and places, already present in his poems and in the collection of short stories

L'Alphabet des femmes

(Arléa).

Psychiatrist and gerontologist, Gaustine

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Source: lefigaro

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