At Home With Ivan Vladislavi
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At Home With Ivan Vladislavi
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Author : Gerald Gaylard
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
At Home With Ivan Vladislavi written by Gerald Gaylard and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style, which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city, but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way, Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
Portrait With Keys The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Portrait With Keys The City Of Johannesburg Unlocked written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Travel categories.
“Surely one of the most ingenious love letters—full of violence, fear, humour, and cunning—ever addressed to a city.” —Geoff Dyer This dazzling portrait of Johannesburg is one of the most haunting, poetic pieces of reportage about a metropolis since Suketu Mehta’s Maximum City. Through precisely crafted snapshots, Ivan Vladislavic observes the unpredictable, day-today transformation of his embattled city: the homeless using manholes as cupboards, a public statue slowly cannibalized for scrap. Most poignantly he charts the small, devastating changes along the postapartheid streets: walls grow higher, neighborhoods are gated off, the keys multiply. Security—insecurity?—is the growth industry. Vladislavic, described as “one of the most imaginative minds at work in South African literature today” (André Brink), delivers “one of the best things ever written about a great, if schizophrenic, city, and an utterly true picture of the new South Africa” (Christopher Hope).
The Distance
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: Archipelago
Release Date : 2020-09-15
The Distance written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by Archipelago this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Fiction categories.
A boxing bildungsroman - a collage of memories, love, resistance, and the spectacle of Muhammed Ali in Apartheid South Africa. In the spring of 1970, a Pretoria schoolboy, Joe, becomes obsessed with Muhammad Ali. He begins collecting daily newspaper clippings about him, a passion that grows into an archive of scrapbooks. Forty years later, when Joe has become a writer, these scrapbooks become the foundation for a memoir of his childhood. When he calls upon his brother, Branko, for help uncovering their shared past, meaning comes into view in the spaces between then and now, growing up and growing old, speaking out and keeping silent.
The Folly
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2015-09-22
The Folly written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-22 with Fiction categories.
A vacant patch of South African veld next to the comfortable, complacent Malgas household has been taken over by a mysterious, eccentric figure with "a plan." Fashioning his tools out of recycled garbage, the stranger enlists Malgas's help in clearing the land and planning his mansion. Slowly but inevitably, the stranger's charm and the novel's richly inventive language draws Malgas into "the plan" and he sees, feels and moves into the new building. Then, just as remorselessly, all that seemed solid begins to melt back into air.
Flashback Hotel
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2011-10-05
Flashback Hotel written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Two sought-after collections of short stories by Ivan Vladislavić are brought together and made available again in this new volume. Vladislavić’s abilities as a master of understatement and brevity are brilliantly demonstrated in these stories from Missing Persons (1989), for which he received the Olive Schreiner Prize, and Propaganda by Monuments and Other Stories (1996), featuring the two stories that won him the Thomas Pringle Award.
Double Negative
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2011-04-21
Double Negative written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with Fiction categories.
A senior photography introduces a young man to the intricacies of photography. ‘If,’ he says, ‘I try to imagine the lives going on in all these houses, the domestic dramas, the family sagas, it seems impossibly complicated. How could you ever do justice to something so rich in detail? You couldn’t do it in a novel, let alone a photograph.’ The novel follows the young man’s broken path, as he goes overseas, finds a career, and then comes back to a changed Johannesburg. In the process, the book develops an ever-widening perspective not only on change in the country, but also on questions to do with seeing and being seen. It brings into sharp focus South Africa’s recent history and the difficulty of depicting it. Double Negative was first published in November 2010 in TJ/Double Negative as the fictional companion to David Goldblatt’s book of Johannesburg photographs titled TJ
The Exploded View
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2017-03-28
The Exploded View written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-28 with Fiction categories.
The Exploded View, from the masterful South African novelist Ivan Vladislavić, tells the story of four lives intertwined through the sprawling infrastructure on the margins of Johhanesburg: a stastician taking the national census, an engineer out on the town with city officials, an artist interested in genocide, and a contractor who puts up billboards on construction sites. Arcing across distance and time, Vladislavić deftly explodes our comfortable views and brings us behind the curtains of the city while subtly expanding our notions of what is possible in the novel form.
The Loss Library And Other Unfinished Stories
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Author : Ivan Vladislavić
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Loss Library And Other Unfinished Stories written by Ivan Vladislavić and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with African literature categories.
Includes 12 collages by Sunandini Banerjee.
101 Detectives
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Author : Ivan Vladislavic
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2015-04-22
101 Detectives written by Ivan Vladislavic and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with Fiction categories.
A private-eye convention and a tussle over a Pierneef A young man's unsettling experience in the American South and a tragedy off the coast of Mauritius. A bizarre night of industrial theatre and a translator at a loss for words. These are but a few of the fictions in 101 Detectives, a new collection of short stories by Ivan Vladislavić, one of South Africa's most celebrated authors. A collection of short stories launched his career as a writer. Twenty-six years and a whole oeuvre later, 101 Detectives showcases Vladislavić's virtuosity as he bends and recasts this literary form in spectacular fashion.
A Void
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Author : Georges Perec
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008
A Void written by Georges Perec and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Classical fiction categories.
As much a masterpiece of translation as a novel, 'A Void' contains not one single letter e anywhere in the main body of the text. This clever and unusual novel is full of plots and sub-plots, of trails in pursuit of trails and linguistic conjuring tricks