Summary
Željko Špoljar: My Brother Felix Krull
After the first published book by Željko Špoljar (1976) Difficulty swallowing, where autobiographical prose predominates, the second book of short prose My Brother Felix Krull offers an intriguing combination of biographical facts of famous artistic figures and the author's narrative ingenuity in which the real and the fictional are skilfully intertwined, to the extent that in some places it is impossible to distinguish them. Bukowski, Donadini, Pfanova, Čudina, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Glavurtić, Sudeta, Saint-Exupéry, Kamov, Gorki, Tin Ujević, Slava Raškaj, Maupassant, Sever, Šop, Marlene Dietrich, Vitomil Zupan and Gombrowitz are just some of the gallery of Špoljar's most convincing characters. Known or unknown details from life and their fictional superstructure form the core of the text itself, which often ends up at the level of an anecdote or a skillfully struck point.
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