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Tiny Ideologies
From the visionary mind of the young Slovenian author Jasmin B. Frelih, whose debut novel In/Half won the European Union Prize for Literature, come Tiny Ideologies, a collection of short stories written from 2005 to 2015.
From experiments with psychedelics and examinations of the origins of civilization to prescient accounts of the refugee crisis and responses to the great calamities and masterworks of humanity, through probing the limits of the once essential tradition of humanism, Tiny Ideologies make you question the assumptions of the modern world.
Philosophical and outraged, solemn and hysterical, deadpan and tragic, the chronologically arranged stories allow you to follow the development of a mind in tune with the world narrative for a reading experience unlike any other. A major document of an era.
From experiments with psychedelics and examinations of the origins of civilization to prescient accounts of the refugee crisis and responses to the great calamities and masterworks of humanity, through probing the limits of the once essential tradition of humanism, Tiny Ideologies make you question the assumptions of the modern world.
Philosophical and outraged, solemn and hysterical, deadpan and tragic, the chronologically arranged stories allow you to follow the development of a mind in tune with the world narrative for a reading experience unlike any other. A major document of an era.
192 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 30, 2017
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About the author
Jasmin B. Frelih
7 books15 followersJasmin B. Frelih is the award-winning author of novels The Ice Saints (Beletrina, 2023), Pixels (Beletrina, 2021), and In/Half (Cankarjeva zalozba, 2013), the recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature in 2016; a book of short stories Tiny Ideologies (LUD Literatura, 2015) and a book of essays Pale Freedom (Cankarjeva založba, 2018).
Jasmin is a scholar of literature and history. His prose fiction draws on vast reservoirs of knowledge and a unique heritage, creating complex and original forms to explore ageless themes from new perspectives.
His work has been published in more than ten languages, and he has read to audiences in Tokyo, New Delhi, Prague, Brussels, and London. His writing has appeared in Linkiesta, Lit Hub, Passa Porta, and many publications of his native Slovenia.
Jasmin is a scholar of literature and history. His prose fiction draws on vast reservoirs of knowledge and a unique heritage, creating complex and original forms to explore ageless themes from new perspectives.
His work has been published in more than ten languages, and he has read to audiences in Tokyo, New Delhi, Prague, Brussels, and London. His writing has appeared in Linkiesta, Lit Hub, Passa Porta, and many publications of his native Slovenia.
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February 29, 2020
"Doći do sebe nije tako jednostavno ako te svakog bogovetnog dana vuku na sve strane."
Ako neke epitete ne volim da koristim to su čudan i angažovan, ali zaista ne mogu drugačije da opišem Frelihovu prozu. On je filozof, političan je, pametan. Na momente je i previše pametan da se čitalac može osetiti glupim i nedoraslim, nedovoljno upućenim u ono o čemu pisac priča. S druge strane, spadam u grupu onih koji mnogo više vole da se nešto poentira sa manje reči i na manje pretenciozan način (razbacivanje Vujaklijom itd.).
Najviše su mi se dopale priče "Vrapci" i "Rotko" koje se nalaze na samom kraju zbirke. Prva priča "Noćna straža" takođe odskače i nijednog trenutka ne očekujemo onakvu završnicu.
Ako neke epitete ne volim da koristim to su čudan i angažovan, ali zaista ne mogu drugačije da opišem Frelihovu prozu. On je filozof, političan je, pametan. Na momente je i previše pametan da se čitalac može osetiti glupim i nedoraslim, nedovoljno upućenim u ono o čemu pisac priča. S druge strane, spadam u grupu onih koji mnogo više vole da se nešto poentira sa manje reči i na manje pretenciozan način (razbacivanje Vujaklijom itd.).
Najviše su mi se dopale priče "Vrapci" i "Rotko" koje se nalaze na samom kraju zbirke. Prva priča "Noćna straža" takođe odskače i nijednog trenutka ne očekujemo onakvu završnicu.
August 10, 2019
1/5. Preprosto neberljivo. Plitki poskusi samoironizacije, zasičen tekst. Slovensko kratkoprozništvo je v primeru Freliha en velik... meeeeh. Teksti iščejo bralca, tu pa bralec išče tekst, pa ga ne najde.
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