Summary
Filip David: Stories about the real and the unreal
Filip David's new stories, published in this collection after the well-known collections The Well in the Dark Forest, Records of the Real and the Unreal and The Prince of Fire, stylishly impeccably told in the spirit of Hasidic stories, bring the writer's characteristic fantastical elements to the historical plane, playing with some historical episodes on the Balkan border between East and West. At the same time, David's fiction is directed inward, toward man's understanding of time and space, his imagination, dreams, and experience of the world, and not outward, toward some distant future or fictitious present. Paradoxically, these stories, the crown of David's short prose, are all the more grounded in reality and the climate to which we belong.
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