Millhauser Steven: Opasni smijeh

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Author: Millhauser Steven
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Opasni smijeh

Millhauser Steven

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Steven Millhauser: Dangerous Laughter

Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Millhauser has written a collection of darkly humorous stories linked by obsession with obsession. "Dangerous Laughter" - the prose book of the year 2008 as chosen by the critics of The New York Times - takes us to unknown worlds that uncomfortably resemble the one we live in.

The three-part collection begins with an explosive prologue: in "Cat and Mouse" the chase of eternal rivals from a cartoon is vividly depicted, so it seems that the scenes we are reading about are playing out right before our eyes - which is a feature of Millhauser's virtuoso prose. for which he is particularly famous. The first part, "Disappearances", is about people who cease to exist in one way or another: a lonely woman disappears without a trace in a locked room, a high school student visits his best friend's labile sister only in complete darkness, a teenage champion in "orgasmic laughter" dies when her company starts organizing autumn crying sessions. domes tower over entire cities, and the king's master miniaturist creates objects so tiny that his world plunges into the realm of the invisible.

In the end, "Heretical Histories" explores alternative branches of the course of history as we know it: a little-known illustrator makes a series of paintings with a special pigment that makes the scenes seem to come alive, but is rejected by the audience, and a famous inventor is on the trail to discover the haptograph - a simulator of the sense of touch - but the success brings disturbing consequences.

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Steven Millhauser, born in 1943 in New York, is the author of numerous prose works, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the novel "Martin Dressier" (1997). Based on his short story "Eisenheim, the Illusionist", the movie "The Illusionist" was made in 2006 with Edward Norton in the title role. His works have been translated into fourteen languages so far. He teaches at Skidmore College.

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