Four Stories Till the End

( Serbian - Četiri priče do kraja - 2004 )

collection by Zoran Zivkovic

translated by Alice Copple-Tošić

Published: Polaris Press - paperback - 2004
ISBN: 8683741257 / 9788683741250

included in Impossible Stories II - 2009

Kurdohan Press - trade paperback - 2010
ISBN: 4902075342 / 9784902075342


contents
The Cell - short story ( aka Ćelija 2005 )
The Hospital Room - short story ( aka Bolnička soba 2005 )
The Hotel Room - short story ( aka Hotelska soba 2006 )
The Elevator - short story ( aka Lift 2006 )


synopsis
In what strange edifice of the imagination do you find a condemned cell, a hotel room and a hospital room? What kind of hotel offers a zinc mine, a meat-packing plant, a weapons factory and a cemetery of famous artists among its attractions? Why do four people commit suicide in the same bathroom and why does a literature professor cut up several of the greatest works of literature into a confetti of letters? In this wildly imaginative, wildly funny satire on Art and Death nothing is quite what it seems and the maze of symbols grows more complex with each encounter.

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