Summary
Dragan Jurak: Pele's Handbook
An untitled book arrives in the mail to an unnamed literary critic. White cover, no author name or publisher information. It's only on the third page that it's secret: a log of stalking, eavesdropped conversations, intercepted electronic correspondence, hacked hard drives, and other materials, and the author to whom the text is attributed - anyone who has ever heard of football is immediately clear - only deepens the mystery. His name is nothing less than Eusébio Armando Batistuta Pelé. A literary critic soon becomes a literary detective, and the white book becomes an obsession that changes his life in a number of ways. Dragan Jurak is a poet and essayist and an established literary and film critic. His debut novel is a layered dedication to reading as a profession, a hobby and above all a passion, a bookish monument to a book. This postmodernist puzzle of quotes, references, false clues and interpretations without a final solution is nevertheless deeply immersed in the so-called real life, the everyday that decisively determines the reader, and his search for answers that are not always unambiguous. No less important, this is a book about love, about a completely non-literary passion.
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