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Homunculus

Aleksandar Prokopiev
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781908236234
  • Weight: 175g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2015
  • Publisher: Istros Books
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Homunculus is 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 sugarsweet endings we are familiar with.

Along with typical fairy-tale features like the interplay of humans and animals, he presents us with a wide range of more mature themes – the erotic, the tragic, the absurd – set amidst dichotomies on an adult wavelength: mythical vs. urban, banality vs. wisdom, as well as issues of guilt and longing.

Some of the stories are related to existing 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, but all of them are rendered with humour, skill and a noticeable love of life.
About Aleksandar Prokopiev
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.

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