101 Detectives
- Authors
- Vladislavic, Ivan
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Tags
- humour , the exploded view , science fiction , johannesburg , the folly , sunday times fiction prize , detective , contemporary fiction , east africa , translation , mauritius , theatre , art , restless supermarket , cape town , portrait with keys , teju cole , american south , crime , short stories , literary fiction , route 66 , flashback hotel , south africa , letters , architecture , acholi , germany , neville lister , surrealism , pierneef , contemporary , reading , double negative , photography , storytelling
- Date
- 2015-06-16T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 9.29 MB
- Lang
- en
What kind of Detective am I? Eardrum or tympanum? Gullet or esophagus? Pussy or pudenda? A Detective needs a language almost as much as a language needs a Detective.
In this new collection of stories, award-winning author Ivan Vladislavic invites readers to do some detective work of their own. Each story can be read as just that – a story – or you can dig a little deeper. Take a closer look, examine the artefact from all angles, and consider the clues and patterns concealed within.
Whether skewering extreme marketing techniques or constructing dystopian parallel universes; whether mourning a mother’s loss or tracing a translator’s on-stage breakdown, Vladislavic’s pitch-perfect inquisitions will make you question your own language – how it defines you, and how it undoes you.