Homunculus: Fairy Tales for Adults - Couverture souple

Prokopiev, Aleksandar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190823623X ISBN 13 : 9781908236234

Editeur : Istros Books, 2015

Synopsis

Homunculus is billed as a collection of sixteen fairy tales for adults with something for every reader. The author has largely retained the classical fairy-tale structure with its elements of surprise and the constant intertwining of the real and unreal, but he transcends the sugar-sweet endings we are familiar with.

Prokopiev presents us with a wide range of more mature themes too the erotic, the tragic, feelings of alienation. Some of the stories are related to internationally known fairy tales such as Tom Thumb, where the main character struggles with an oedipal bond with his mother, or The Huntsman, told from the perspective of the hunter sent out to kill Snow White. Others go back to Macedonian folk roots or have been freely composed by Prokopiev himself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Aleksandar Prokopiev graduated at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology, General and Comparative literature department, and finished his postgraduate education in Belgrade and at the Sorbonne. He has pubished 13 books of stories and essays, as well as a novella, The Peeper (2007) and his collection, Homunculus received the Balkanika Prize 2012. He has worked as a editor of several magazines, and was a member of the editorial board of Orient Express (Oxford, UK) and World Haiku (Kyoto, Japan); and presently for POEM Magazine (Universtiry of Roehampton). He has written screenplays for film, theatre, tv shows, radio dramas and comic books, and his works have been translated into many languages. Porkopiev is also the Artistic Director of the Pro-Za Balkan International Festival of Literature, Skopje, Macedonia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Istros Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190823623X
• ISBN 13: 9781908236234
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 175
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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